One of the inspirations for creating this blog is a wonderful book called “Peopleware” by Tom DeMarco and Timothy Lister which I am reading right now. The book is about creating and maintaining Productive Projects and Teams.
Yesterday I read an interesting chapter called “TEAMICIDE”. It is about making teams jell at your company.
The authors could not come up with “Six things you can do to make team formation possible” so they tackled the problem by the trick called “inversion” described Edward deBono’s Lateral Thinking.
“Inversion” is a technique to achieve your goal by looking for ways to achieve exactly opposite of your goal. This helps in clearing brains cobwebs which keep you from being creative.
So they focused on six things which will keep them away from creating jelled team. They came up with following
- defensive management
- bureaucracy
- physical separation
- fragmentation of people’ s time
- quality reduction of the product
- phony deadlines
- clique control
I would not go into details here but I can say these are some of most commonly found techniques in all the companies.
I don’t deny that we are not affected by any of the above techniques but fortunately the effect is less and manageable. My personal target is to make sure above techniques are completely removed from Digicorp.
My first target should be to remove phony deadlines from the projects if there are any. This is the most prevalent technique in most of the companies today and I do feel that it kills the motivation of developers to do well.
I would encourage my development team to write something more on this and what we can do it remove this.
I would love to hear from you more on this. What other techniques you think can hamper creating jelled teams?
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