Purely anecdotal, but on one of my open-source projects [1] I have around 60 contributors, most have done small things like fix defects, or fixed up inconsistencies. Some have contributed to a larger sub-project (which I drove).
In my case I don't see myself as a 'hero', I just see myself as the person motivated to build it. Probably all of the bugs were caused by me, mostly because I wrote nearly all of it.
In terms of interactions (comments on Issues), again it's mostly me because I know it and built it.
That's not to say others don't help or contribute, this project seems to 'fit the numbers', but I don't see how this is in anyway insightful, it's just obvious for open-source projects. To a certain extent I see the people who contribute as the real heroes, as they're not getting much out of it personally: it's me who gets all the kudos for the project, not them.
Some insight into how this translates into projects within real businesses would be much more useful. Anecdotally again, I do see the pattern of the hero in my organisation (and have in previous companies I've worked at).
Several members of my team are real force multipliers and could easily be called heroes, and to a certain extent they receive that hero worship within the organisation (which can be good and bad). I'd say we probably wouldn't have survived as a business without them being exceptional or going the extra mile.
In my case I don't see myself as a 'hero', I just see myself as the person motivated to build it. Probably all of the bugs were caused by me, mostly because I wrote nearly all of it.
In terms of interactions (comments on Issues), again it's mostly me because I know it and built it.
That's not to say others don't help or contribute, this project seems to 'fit the numbers', but I don't see how this is in anyway insightful, it's just obvious for open-source projects. To a certain extent I see the people who contribute as the real heroes, as they're not getting much out of it personally: it's me who gets all the kudos for the project, not them.
Some insight into how this translates into projects within real businesses would be much more useful. Anecdotally again, I do see the pattern of the hero in my organisation (and have in previous companies I've worked at).
Several members of my team are real force multipliers and could easily be called heroes, and to a certain extent they receive that hero worship within the organisation (which can be good and bad). I'd say we probably wouldn't have survived as a business without them being exceptional or going the extra mile.
[1] https://github.com/louthy/language-ext