[teampractices] "It will never work in theory"

Wed Jan 21 04:21:00 UTC 2015

Thanks a lot for the link, very insightful !

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On Tue, Jan 20, 2015 at 4:48 PM, Chris McMahon <cmcmahon at wikimedia.org>
wrote:

>
> And these days I'm more interested in stuff like this:
> http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/18/opinion/sunday/why-some-teams-are-smarter-than-others.html?_r=0 (which
> also discusses remote teams)
>
> (Overview of two studies published in Science)
>
> Instead, the smartest teams were distinguished by three characteristics.
>
> First, their members contributed more equally to the team’s discussions,
> rather than letting one or two people dominate the group.
>
> Second, their members scored higher on a test called Reading the Mind in
> the Eyes, which measures how well people can read complex emotional states
> from images of faces with only the eyes visible.
>
> Finally, teams with more women outperformed teams with more men.
>
> On Tue, Jan 20, 2015 at 8:17 AM, Chris McMahon <cmcmahon at wikimedia.org>
> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Jan 19, 2015 at 6:50 PM, Greg Grossmeier <greg at wikimedia.org>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> I disagree with the term "software engineering" to describe the software
>>> development that happens today. I don't think it's accurate, and indeed
>>> I think the concept's too much of a fantasy for the term to be used
>>> seriously about practicing developers do.
>>
>>
>> Back when I used to write about such things I argued that software
>> development expressly is not and can not be engineering*. (I have reasons
>> for believing this if you want to talk about it...) This is my favorite
>> piece, and even Andy Hunt said nice things about on on Twitter at the time,
>> which is apparently unusual:
>> https://pragprog.com/magazines/2010-11/writing-and-performing . I have a
>> few other bits along those lines in various places as well.
>>
>> * As I understand it, it is illegal in Texas to call yourself a "Software
>> Engineer".  The State of Texas requires that anyone with the title
>> "Engineer" have a degree or certification from an accredited engineering
>> program, and "software engineering" is not acceptable.
>>
>
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