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5 Factors for Effective Teams

Jan Wedel on November 10, 2018

Most of us work in teams, some as developers, some as managers, but both actually want to develop software effectively. That doesn't mean "fast" ev...
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Kevin Gathuku

Love this. I totally agree with the Peopleware book recommendation. It's an absolutely fabulous book about what makes teams succeed or fail. I hope every software developer gets to read it in the course of their career.

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Jan Wedel

The thing is: I have the feeling that the wrong people tend to read it. Developers usually know. I would actually order a couple of dozen issues and put one on each managers desk.

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mæghith | Ramón FSM

Just a comment on the header image, proper actual quote is:

"The whole is different than the sum of its parts" (not "greater"), and it's from gestalt psychologist Kurt Koffka (not Aristotle).

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gestalt_psyc...

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Jan Wedel

It’s actually from the research results so I didn’t double check it. But hanks for clarification. There are so many wrong quotes out there... people just lose track