Recently on
Golem was an
article about
characterizing a developer (it's written in german). In the article the author Maja Hoock talked about the problem that
very opposite characters can influence the software development process negative - from my own experience, that's true and sometimes it's not true.
In conclusion, it is important to know what developer characters work in a team. At this point the article introduced two people, Matthias Wittum and Christian Rehn, who had an idea how to call the characters (ninja, sorcerer, gardener and more) and how to distinguish between them. Kindly, they did not keep their thoughts for themselves but have created a website in english language with a self-test 🙂
From this point on the thing became really funny and interesting. The character titles reminded me of a hero group from a role playing game like Wizardry. I was really busy with the self-test because you must agree to a maximum of five statements within a group of different statements. Even if you would say that other statements fits to you and your opinion ... just five please.
At the end I got my result: The Technician. Well,
that doesn't sound glorious.
Sounds a bit like the person who is fixing my car or the elevator. Fire fighter would be cool or even better, a Ninja. No matter, I will check if Technician was the right result.
Just one thought at the end of this blog. Perhaps there is a question in your next job interview like "
What developer character are you?". So what's your answer? Let me know, hope you will have the same fun as I had ...
Michael
