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> Team work is much more natural if you are up against an external enemy in the broadest sense This is why I've always found it frightening when some managemen
by scruple 5y ago
> Team work is much more natural if you are up against an external enemy in the broadest sense
This is why I've always found it frightening when some management type starts talking about the book Extreme Ownership. I am a veteran, though I was not SOF, and I have strong opinions about why military management mindsets do not translate well to the business world in _most_ cases. To be fair, I have not read the book, but from what I have heard from those who have read it, I would be wary of anyone trying to apply it to a software engineering shop.
- caffeine 5y agoThink you might be pleasantly surprised... concepts like “extreme ownership” (care about everything in your stack), “decentralised command” (push decision making to those doing the work), “cover and move” (help each other) actually translate pretty well. The book is mostly about dealing with people rather than about engineering process, and I think the people aspects of a coding team and any other high performance team probably have a lot in common.