Why You Should Treat C-Players Like A-Players

Post by southpolesteve » Tue, Sep 26, 2017, 12:01 PM UTC

kristianc wrote: post #33

kasey_junk wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You've listed things that make him not an A player in your mind, can you list the things that would indicate he is one? Can you objectively compare that list to some A players and back test your assumptions? My biggest problem with the "A" player mythology is that I don't think anyone has any real way to judge it, so "A" player becomes "looks like me". Which I think is the heart of our industry's myriad issues.

For me, when I think of an A Player, I think of people like Martin Fowler, Patrick McKenzie, Jess Frazelle. All have demonstrable track records, and share hugely detailed posts which are backed up with real experience and not vague insights. They are sharing material that generates large amounts of value and helps define and shape their respective areas (such as Martin's piece on Serverless, Patrick's work helping su…

Post by vogt » Sat, Sep 30, 2017, 7:16 PM UTC

kristianc wrote: post #22

vogt wrote: post #3

Great article. I very much agree with all the points made, and see a lot of myself in the author's hindsight about themselves.

You must be a real A-player.