Solo vs Team Development

your story is about one person working on one projectI think likely typing would help at larger organizations where teams often code against other teams' code and/or services with unclear interfaces

Some projects arent meant for teamsOne highly skilled and experienced person can move faster than 5 people that dont understand the vision and need meetings often

Yes, as a lone developer. If you're working in a team it's less likely to work out well as you will have a much more significant training period for anyone to join one of your projects (in a team environment it's wise to go with "boring").

Please explain, because I find that difficult to appropriate to projects worked on by a single person.

We need to get off of this 'I am a special snowflake' that cannot be bothered to work with a team. If you want to solo develop than go be a solo app developer. If you want to deliver software as part of a team, then working with the team is part of the gig. I know it is hard to believe, but the act of coding is only one part of many required to deliver working software that meets the requirements.Great function you wrote there that does the wrong thing because you were too busy</

I've been in this situation many times too, but I have to say it feels like a weakness. When a single person works on a problem I see improvements being left on the table compared to when two people effectively collaborate. I've experienced this in a wide range of skill/experience levels so I don't think that is the problem.That said, I don't know how to change the situation if you have devs with skillsets that don't seem to overlap much, which seems inevitable

Funding aside, single individuals being responsible for software is not a good thing, see bus factor.

truly, if you can't work with people then you can't accomplish great things. the days when one could single-handedly crank out something revolutionary are gone.maybe 3% of programmers can still do this, and 2 of those percent understand how much easier it is to lean on a dev team and learn co-operation.that just leaves the bitchy 1% we see taking offense at this informative presentation by their betters...

Single developer work is akin to single point of failure. This article brings to memory a famous article from an author name that it eludes me at the time. The article reads a line that goes alone this idea: "With enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow". You wouldn't board a plane that was built by one single guy right?

Developing software as a team is a completely different sport than developing software alone. Developing software alone even happens when people think they work as a team. They just split up the tasks so that each individual contributor owns their part of the codebase.Developing software as a team really means much more time is spent on discussion, writing documentation, reviewing code and explaining concepts than actually writing code. The benefit of this is: Everyone in the team has a good