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Discussion on: What are your favorite analogies to explain programming?

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Peter Ellis

The only ones I strongly disagree with are "Guru" and "Rock Star".

They send out all the wrong messages for me.

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Jean-Michel πŸ•΅πŸ»β€β™‚οΈ Fayard

Yes, and that's because programming is a team sport, not a star system.

This is why the metaphor from Scrum makes much more sense :

A team of rugby players with different skills that shares a common goal, take hints from a coach, but otherwise self organise when it plays together on the field.