I prefer the U.S. Marines fire team version of a tech team: everybody codes, everybody looks out after everybody, you should be able to do your "boss's" job, it

I prefer the U.S. Marines fire team version of a tech team: everybody codes, everybody looks out after everybody, you should be able to do your "boss's" job, it's critical to over-communicate, and ego has no place in a good team. Having said that, sometimes somebody has to make decisions. And somebody always has to go to meetings and report upstairs. Poor schmuck.