Team Geek Quotes

“Bus factor (noun): the number of people that need to get hit by a bus before your project is completely doomed.”
― Brian W. Fitzpatrick, Team Geek: A Software Developer's Guide to Working Well with Others

“A good general rule around communication is to include as few people as necessary in synchronous communication (like meetings), and to go for a broader audience in asynchronous communication (like email).”
― Brian W. Fitzpatrick, Team Geek: A Software Developer's Guide to Working Well with Others

“An engineer’s skills are like the blade of a knife: you may spend tens of thousands of dollars to find engineers with the sharpest skills for your team, but if you “use” that knife for years without sharpening it, you will wind up with a dull knife that is inefficient, and in some cases useless.”
― Brian W. Fitzpatrick, Team Geek: A Software Developer's Guide to Working Well with Others

“High-functioning teams are gold and the true key to success.”
― Brian W. Fitzpatrick, Team Geek: A Software Developer's Guide to Working Well with Others

“In short, you should care because if you don’t put effort into building and maintaining your culture, your team will eventually be overtaken by a strong personality who cultivates his culture in your team.”
― Brian W. Fitzpatrick, Team Geek: A Software Developer's Guide to Working Well with Others