From the course: Agile Software Development: Creating an Agile Culture
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Diversity, inclusion, and belonging
From the course: Agile Software Development: Creating an Agile Culture
Diversity, inclusion, and belonging
- When we start to assemble our teams, it can be so tempting to bring on people whose personalities and strengths are just like our own. In her book, Brotopia: Breaking Up the Boys Club of Silicon Valley, Emily Chang describes how this approach of homogeneity has its roots that go back decades. In the 1960s, many organizations used the Canon-Parry Aptitude Test to determine who would be a good fit for software development roles. The defining characteristic, which was developed from a survey of mostly male programmers, determined that the best developers don't like people, and so the stereotype of the lone genius developer was born, and it still largely persists even to the present day. In the 90s and early 2000s, teams were assembled based on cultural fit which often included hiring only people like us. Now, it can be debated whether or not this homogeneity was intentional or not, but the data that's emerging today…
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