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On Fri, Nov 29, 2013 at 10:53 AM, <cbullard@hiwaay.net> wrote:
At the core was a team of civil servants who specified it, designed it AND managed its fabrication and fielding. This team had been together developing these systems for three decades: German Rocket Scientists. The Von Braun Team. In short, what de Marco and Lister call a "jelled team". Unfortunately, we don't know how to create those, only how to destroy them. The chapter on teamicide in Peopleware starts thus:
What's called for here is a concise chapter entitled "Making Between plan and execution, there were a few distressing Instead, they explain seven ways (in the 2e, nine ways) to prevent teams from jelling, a much simpler matter. Alas, in 2013 all of these ways are still in regular use by management — and they explain why both Clueless and Sociopath managers (without using those terms) are interested in preventing teams from jelling.
A truly great book, whose only defect is that those who need it most will never heed it. I see that it has a new edition this year; I suppose I'll have to break down and buy it. --
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