In the early 1990s he was invited to look at a project at Borland Software Corporation that was making a new spreadsheet product called “Quattro Pro for Windows.” For the project, one million lines of software code had been created. They took thirty-one months to produce and were the output of eight people. That means each team member produced one thousand lines of code each week. That’s the fastest of any team on record, and Jim wanted to know how they did it.