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- From: cga66@cbnewse.cb.att.com (patrick.v.kauffold)
- Subject: Re: Will we keep ignoring this productivity issue?
- Organization: AT&T
- Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 18:07:18 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Nov16.180718.27105@cbnewse.cb.att.com>
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- >
- > If all managers were capable of doing this then they could implement
- > the strategy of "pick a small team for any job, and the harder the
- > problem, the better the people must be".
-
- Or you can let the leading software engineers pick their own teams,
- or at least be intimately involved in team selection.
-
- I personally like the "surgical team" approach put forth, I think,
- by Brooks.
-
- My experience is that (in large organizations) managers tend to
- pick teams as if people were plug-compatible. And then they wonder
- why the team can't seem to get it together.
-
- Pat Kauffold
-