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Assholes
are
killing
your
project
It's all about barriers to entry
Wikipedia: Smokefoot
Community is critical
Reputation
Contributors
Results
Your ability to get results
depends on your community.
What makes a great community?
Assholes The best
Most of us
Ubuntu launches
Ohloh
Proto-assholes start
receiving complaints
Assholes removed
Ohloh
Drepper inactiveMove to Git
What isn't an asshole?
Conflict is good
What is an asshole? A simple test
After talking to the asshole, does the target feel
oppressed, humiliated, de-energized, or belittled?
What is an asshole?
Look for
patterns
How many good
interactions does
it take to cancel
out one bad one?
Sutton
Sutton
Sutton
Sutton
Sutton
Fight
Flickr: undergroundbastard
Men tend to
Pearson & Porath
Flight
Flickr: noeluap
Women tend toward
Pearson & Porath
TCA: Total Cost of Asshole
Team lead
Developer relations team
Project leadership
Recruiting & training new developers
Targets & witnesses
__________________
Total Cost of Asshole
+
+
+
+
Sutton
Problems assholes cause to targets
● 48% decreased their effort
● 47% worked less time
● 38% dropped their quality
● 66% declined in performance
● 80% lost time worrying
● 63% lost time avoiding
● 78% became less committed
● 25% quit; 20% of witnesses quit!
Sutton
Cascading
effects
amplify
the problem
Flickr: wsdot
Problems assholes cause to projects
● Reduced innovation & creativity
● Reduced cooperation & cohesion
● Cost of targets' retribution toward project
● Impaired cooperation from external projects & people
● Impaired ability to attract
the best & brightest
● Recruiting more assholes
Sutton
An asshole is incompetent
Flickr: escapo
Dealing
with assholes
a.k.a.
How to steel
your spine
Flickr: AdmlCrunch
How do you fix it?
Flickr: trp0
Flickr: kalandrakas
Flickr: hashir
How do you prevent it?
Flickr: redefyne
Flickr: koenvereeken
Be quantitative
Flickr: mount_otz
Provide expectations
In the long run,
dealing with assholes
is never worth it.
Want to learn more?
Read these
Donnie Berkholz
dberkholz@redmonk.com
Twitter/IRC: dberkholz

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