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How else to learn humble, team-oriented, potentially uncomfortable honesty but regular practice? Psychological safety is the biggest factor in overal team perf
by mattcwilson 6y ago
How else to learn humble, team-oriented, potentially uncomfortable honesty but regular practice?
Psychological safety is the biggest factor in overal team performance and morale. That safety comes from trust, and that trust comes from routine demonstration of vulnerability and support.
Lone wolf rockstars can have their own moments of self-defeat and wheelspinning too. But if they haven’t developed a sense of courage and humility to admit it and bring it to the team, then the whole team is now literally bottlenecked on their ego.
- eurasiantiger 6y agoIt’s a nice story about rockstars: when the mythical 10x engineer gets stuck, PMs fucking PANIC.
- ant1oz 6y agoLul, you are over-estimating managers capabilities to differentiate a 10x developer from a 0.1x developer.
- pracer 6y ago>That safety comes from trust, and that trust comes from routine demonstration of vulnerability and support That's my intuition about what's wrong with these ceremonies: they look like they are trying to foster those things by enforcing the superficial behaviours seen in good teams, but it is just the effect. A team with trust, close bonded and efficient has "standups" and "retros" in an organic way, because that's the effect of a team that work together. I always felt these methodologies try to turn it around, as in "let's force the superficial behaviours we see in good teams, so it will make other teams as good". But it doesn't work that way and it ends up being a tool for managers.