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February 22, 2018
Engineering is easy. People are hard. Bill Coughran,
Subversion.
We weren’t just writing code all day in a vacuum; we were leading an open source project.
Google Code.
What began as a series of humorous talks
Subversion Worst Practices”)
protecting teams f...
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Larger and larger crowds gathered at our presentations in what can only be described as “group ther...
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You work on a team with other creative people, probably in a corporate or other structured environment.
You enjoy building things and believe it should be a rewarding and fun activity.
“play well with others,”
how to lead a team effectively, navigate an organization, and build a healthy relationship with the users of your software.
investigates the human side of creative product development,
humans are complex things.
“People are basically a giant pile of inte...
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Professional coders almost always work in teams,
the human factors involved have as much influence on the outcome as the technical factors.
most people haven’t really focused on the h...
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You’ll end up spending less energy dealing with people-related problems
software development is a team sport.
Help Me Hide My Code
insecurity.
People are afraid of others seeing and judging their work in progress.
Insecurity is actually the symptom of a larger problem.
The Genius Myth
Linus wrote Linux by himself,
it was just the tip of the iceberg.
did Stallman personally write all of the Free Software Foundation’s software?
His true genius was in the
way he worked with his team.
Phil Jackson, was extrem...
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The team was a well-oiled machine — at least as impressive as Michael himself.
Celebrity is a big part of it.
We all need heroes for inspiration, and the programming world has its heroes too.
the number of people that need to get hit by a bus before your project is completely doomed.
As programmers we work best in tight feedback loops.
working alone is inherently riskier than working with others.
Creating a superstar team is the real goal, and is fiendishly difficult.
La estrategia que uso para crear un súper equipo es fortalecer el conocimiento y aptitudes de personas claves, esto causa un efecto intrínseco de transitividad de conocimiento, ya que parte de la preparación de estos pilares es recalcarles la misión de compartir su conocimiento con los demás miembros del equipo de manera que a largo plazo todos vayan fortaleciéndose en diferentes niveles, cada quien con diferentes cualidades y aptitudes pero formando parte de una gran red interconectada de conocimiento. Esa es la clave.

