LornaJane

Weak Software Teams

Tuesday, October 31. 2006


The strongest indication of a weak team is the realization that if you were to quit and start your own business, you wouldn’t try to poach any of your colleagues.


I saw this in a post about learning from failure on ranganwald’s blog and its so true!

Posted by LornaJane in quote-of-the-day at 10:19 | Comments (3) | Trackbacks (0)

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I would poach some of my colleagues and ex-colleagues. Managers can go….

#1 Simon on 2006-10-31 19:15 (Reply)

I’d poach you guys!

#2 dotjay (Homepage) on 2006-11-01 00:45 (Reply)

Simon – I like the tactful trailing-off of the sentence. I can certainly think of people we’ve worked with that I could work well with again.

Jon – thanks for the vote of confidence. If you ever start your own … oh wait, you already did start your own business :)

If I ever worked for myself and had scope to employ others, I certainly have a mental "little black book" of who I would ask to join me.

#3 LornaJane (Homepage) on 2006-11-01 09:00 (Reply)

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