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The IBM Black Team (2002)
- DanBC 11y ago> A member of the Black Team was the last person a programmer wanted to see walking towards him, and more than one programmer was reduced to tears while having his code evaluated by the Black Team. I hope that "reduced to tears" stuff is just hyperbole. But even so, there's an acceptance that to be effective you have to be an asshole, and it's just not true.
- jjoonathan 11y agoYes, but if management believes it then it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.
- simula67 11y agoStory about the Black Team : http://www.penzba.co.uk/GreybeardStories/TheBlackTeam.html http://www.penzba.co.uk/GreybeardStories/TheBlackTeam.html
- nickpsecurity 11y agoA great example of a group of people gelling into a team with its own culture in a way that enhances its work. I ran across this example in the book PeopleWare: http://www.amazon.com/Peopleware-Productive-Projects-Teams-Edition/dp/0321934113 http://www.amazon.com/Peopleware-Productive-Projects-Teams-E... It had a lot more wisdom in it on teams, interruptions, flow, and so on. I recommend anyone that enjoyed this story to get it as it has many more with recommendations. Of course, my version was an older one so the new one might be better or worse. I'm sure it will be Good at the least. ;)
- chii 11y agoif the teams creating the software was not effective at producing fixes to the software, the black team's efforts at catching bugs would have been for naught. So the silent heroes are actually the fixers.