Jerry Weinberg described the 10 Commandments of Egoless Programming in his classic “The Psychology of Computer Programming“. We copied the version on Jeff Atwood’s blog.
2013/12/16
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Kyle Chamberlin 2013/12/18
Awesome nuggets of insight… but I wish the details for #7 weren’t duplicated from #3.
corinna 2013/12/19 — Post Author
*pullingHairInDespair* Damn you, copy paste…
[x] Fixed now.
Thank you Kyle for pointing it out!
Lydia 2013/12/19
I used this in a Retro today and we got a lot of great discussions about the commandments. And some good ToDos for the next Sprint!
Thank you Corinna!!
corinna 2013/12/20 — Post Author
Hi Lydia!
Nice to hear that it’s useful!
And great idea to use it in a retro. It’s now on my list of activities to add to Retr-O-Mat 🙂
Happy Holidays,
Corinna
Foo 2015/02/17
Can you change 9. to not be gender specific?
Corinna 2015/02/21 — Post Author
Thanks for pointing that out!
In my own work I always thrive to be non-specific (or alternate pronouns). However this is not original work by me (or Roland). I’m quoting Jerry Weinberg and just added layout. I don’t feel comfortable changing his words even if I’m not comfortable with the gendered phrasing either. (Thinking back I’m pretty sure I minded that back when I designed the 1-pager, but I didn’t want to change a quote and I love the egoless approach.)
I’ll reach out to him on Twitter.
Have a great weekend,
Corinna
Corinna 2015/02/22 — Post Author
Jerry Weinberg (or someone impersonating him on Twitter) agreed (https://twitter.com/JerryWeinberg/status/569241324173598722) so I’ll make the change as soon as I’ve got time 🙂
Corinna 2015/02/22 — Post Author
Which turned out to be right now 🙂
[x] Done
Kim Barnes 2015/02/22
I see you made the gender neutral change, but #3 and #7 details look the same, and I see from a previous comment that you fixed it earlier.
Corinna 2015/02/22 — Post Author
You are right, of course. Guess my backup wasn’t of the last version :/ Hopefully everything’s alright now.
Thank you for taking the time to alert us to it!
Kim Barnes 2015/02/22
Thanks for fixing it!