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Peter Harrison

The 10x engineer is actually a product of a healthy development environment which gives developers the latitude to explore and take ownership. The real successes do not result from developers having their story point counts micro managed. Real success is about breeding a development culture which cares about pleasing the customer, who has an empathy for what the problem is and the pragmatic skills to solve it. The idea that there is something magical about some developers is toxic; if you wrap developers in a environment which gives them responsibility and ownership, along with the support and environment to perform you can develop these star performers.