Tagged “people”

The One Million Dollar Team

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I was curious about how much an optimally sized, fully self-sufficient, highly talented software development team would cost. So, I decided to collect some data and find out. It turns out that such a team in Los Angeles costs a bit over $1.1 million per year.

Minimum Viable Development Team

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Imagine that you’re tasked with recruiting a development team to build a new product. What would that team look like? How big would it be? Who would be on it?

You Can’t Teach Height

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There is an old saying in basketball that you can’t teach height. For most basketball positions, having a few inches on your competition helps, sometimes a lot. Being a natural athlete helps too. So, basketball GMs try to draft the tallest, most athletically gifted players they can. The rest can be taught.

Is a Social Intranet Useful for Technology Teams?

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Our technology team been forever searching for a good way to capture knowledge (things like discussions, ideas, tips & tricks, technical documentation, etc). Seems simple, yet a good system to capture all this knowledge proved to be surprisingly elusive.

Why is it So Hard to Give Negative Feedback?

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People often say that a good indicator of a healthy team is the willingness of its members to give feedback (and vice versa). Let’s parse this out.