> Superficially the starter seems to be 25x more productive than the finisher, but without the finisher, the starter might not deliver any business value at all.
Finishers are actually quite rare and worth their weight in gold. And starters need finishers just as much as finishers need starters, but I've seen tons of people that are good at starting stuff and only very few that are good at finishing. It takes real perseverance and dedication to see a project through to its conclusion.
I wrote a post about exactly that:
http://jacquesmattheij.com/A+tale+of+two+programmers
Finishers are actually quite rare and worth their weight in gold. And starters need finishers just as much as finishers need starters, but I've seen tons of people that are good at starting stuff and only very few that are good at finishing. It takes real perseverance and dedication to see a project through to its conclusion.