Many to ManyNo Man is an Island

Jacopo Romei

U.S. Airways 1549

United 173

Expertise

Social skills

Expertise

Social skills

enhanced or overridden by

Expertise

Social skills

enhanced or overridden by

Focus

Genius is overrated

Genius

is

overrated

Geniusconcept as an instance of the Dunning-Kruger effect

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect

How do companies manage expertise?

Communities of practice

Reciprocity vs. Remuneration

Are developers an asset or a cost?

“What if my company doesn't invest in my expertise but still I am afraid to move?”

“What if I am a freelancer?”

Who's Jacopo?!

PHP Developer

Agile Coach

Author

I am a nerd.

I am a nerd.thought

I was

Source: http://www.xkcd.com/747/

Times for lone coders are gone.

Gone.

Excerpt from Wikipedia:Sheldon is also a difficult person to work with. In "The Electric Can Opener Fluctuation", Sheldon finds out that the others have tampered with his experiment, in order to make him more pleasant to work with. He also found out that they were considering killing him and had even come up with a plan to do so. When Leonard comes up with an idea for an iPhone application to solve physics problems, Sheldon immediately tries to seize control of it. When Leonard makes it clear that he is in charge, Sheldon continues to annoy the others, resulting in him getting fired by Leonard. When he asks why, Leonard tells him "[he is] impossible to work with".

Best software todayis made by groups of peopleworking on a reciprocity basis

That's why I join communities

GrUSP

GrUSP

Symfony CMF dev

GrUSP

Symfony CMF dev

Extreme Programming Italia

SIAgile

Jackalope

Symfony

ALE Networrk

PUG Roma

Lean Agile Italia

Lean Italia

Symfony Italia

REST-IT

Partecipating in the right community may help you to

Stay on the bleeding edge

Partecipating in the right community may help you to

Cooperate on developing standards bottom-up

Partecipating in the right community may help you to

Double check your ideas

“Valuable ideas can withstand any scrutiny”

Kent Beck, father of TDD

Partecipating in the right community may help you to

Base your job on people

Partecipating in the right community may help you to

Learn customizing known solution in your context

Partecipating in the right community may help you to

Hire distant people

Partecipating in the right community may help you to

Develop your expertise

Communication

Respect

Courage

Feedback

Simplicity

Extreme Programming values

What I like most of PHP?

YOU!

http://joind.in/talk/view/2998

@jacoporomei

Thank you!!!