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Assholesare
killingyourproject
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It's all about barriers to entry
Wikipedia: Smokefoot
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Community is critical
Reputation
Contributors
Results
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Your ability to get results depends on your community.
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What makes a great community?
Assholes The best
Most of us
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Ubuntu launches
Ohloh
Proto-assholes start receiving complaints
Assholes removed
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Ohloh
Drepper inactiveMove to Git
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What isn't an asshole?
Conflict is good
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What is an asshole? A simple test
After talking to the asshole, does the target feel oppressed, humiliated, de-energized, or belittled?
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What is an asshole?
Look for patterns
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How many good interactions does it take to cancel out one bad one?
Sutton
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Sutton
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Sutton
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Sutton
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Sutton
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Fight
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Men tend to
Pearson & Porath
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Flight
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Women tend toward
Pearson & Porath
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TCA: Total Cost of Asshole
Team lead
Developer relations team
Project leadership
Recruiting & training new developers
Targets & witnesses__________________Total Cost of Asshole
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Sutton
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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
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Cascading effects amplify the problem
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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
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An asshole is incompetent
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Dealingwith assholesa.k.a. How to steel your spine
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How do you fix it?
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Flickr: kalandrakas
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Flickr: hashir
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How do you prevent it?
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Be quantitative
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Provide expectations
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In the long run, dealing with assholes is never worth it.
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Want to learn more?Read these
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