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I agree with this perspective - the closest thing I've seen to this sort of "external enemy" approach in tech is engineers/SREs responding to an outage/critical
by mattzito 5y ago
I agree with this perspective - the closest thing I've seen to this sort of "external enemy" approach in tech is engineers/SREs responding to an outage/critical issue. Good teams will get into a state of flow where people are subdividing work, prioritizing, working as a cohesive unit. In that case, there is a clear objective (get things back up and running) with a clear enemy (that DDoS/database/down payment gateway/datacenter power outage).
- randomswede 5y agoI have experienced it both as part of IT emergency response, as well as when cooking with (a very small subset) other people. As long as everyone is "on the same wavelength" (I am sorry, I cannot quantify that better), it is basically effortless. You need someone to chop onions, and a few minutes later, they're just there. You sense that someone needs a filleting knife (they're just about to place a fish on a cutting board, or something similar that signals "this is the next tool needed") and you're close to it, so you make sure it is there for them (handle first, of course). It is a very similar feeling to a well-integrated infantry unit making an entry into a presumed-hostile building, minus all the adrenaline.