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Net Negative Producing Programmer

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Summary

Person who contributes more trouble than benefits.

Context

Unbalanced Forces

Symptoms and Consequences

• the NNPP produces a higher number of defects in the work product, compared to other team members
• the NNPP takes overly long to remedy the defects (s)he introduced, compared to other team members
• the nominal productivity of NNPP (e.g. LOC written per time period) is at least average or better, compared to other team members

Causes

(Refactored) Solution

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Related Anti-patterns

Anti-pattern	Relation
Brook’s Law	TBD
Lone-Wolf	NNPP person might be a Lone Wolf
Warm Bodies	NNPP can be a source of Warm Bodies

Notes (optional)

Sources

• CUN’10 – see the description on C2 wiki
• http://www.pyxisinc.com/NNPP_Article.pdf – the original article discussing the anti-pattern in detail, referenced from [CUN’10]

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