Comments on: Trust & Transparency http://lostechies.com/mokhan/2008/07/14/trust-amp-transparency/ Just another LosTechies site Tue, 12 May 2009 07:06:21 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 By: jlockwood http://lostechies.com/mokhan/2008/07/14/trust-amp-transparency/#comment-2 jlockwood Mon, 14 Jul 2008 21:05:17 +0000 /blogs/mokhan/archive/2008/07/14/trust-amp-transparency.aspx#comment-2 I've worked on a couple of tight teams in the past...one eight years ago and one as recently as a year ago. Both were originally formed around XP ideals...and both were pretty successful. I still keep in touch with folks from both teams and would love to work with any of the members again. The only problem with having the priviledge of working on such a team is the curse of going back to the "same-old same-old" afterwards. Both teams were tight-knit mainly because humility was adopted as a core value with both pretty early on. Also, the highly collaborative environments on both teams helped members feel closer while exposing non-"team players" before they caused too much trouble. In addition, both teams expected senior developers to work closely with junior developers which helped avoid creation of elitist clicques. I’ve worked on a couple of tight teams in the past…one eight years ago and one as recently as a year ago. Both were originally formed around XP ideals…and both were pretty successful. I still keep in touch with folks from both teams and would love to work with any of the members again. The only problem with having the priviledge of working on such a team is the curse of going back to the “same-old same-old” afterwards.

Both teams were tight-knit mainly because humility was adopted as a core value with both pretty early on. Also, the highly collaborative environments on both teams helped members feel closer while exposing non-”team players” before they caused too much trouble. In addition, both teams expected senior developers to work closely with junior developers which helped avoid creation of elitist clicques.

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