Wednesday, May 7, 2014

The All-Star engineer squad

Hey you, get a team of 20 people to work on the next great piece of software. You want the 20 best people you can find, right?

I don't think so.

Given a project of sufficient size, there will always be areas that "just need to get done" and have relatively straight-forward solutions. It's best to have people who don't wish to be the top dog on these: they will do solid work, not cause turmoil with egotistical design discussions, and simply just get things working.

The simple truth is: there isn't enough interesting/novel stuff to go around to warrant an All-Star at every spot.

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