There is no mistaking the magic when a large group of programmers have a common vision, of sufficient conceptual integrity to allow most anyone to make most any

There is no mistaking the magic when a large group of programmers have a common vision, of sufficient conceptual integrity to allow most anyone to make most any decisions (source: programming in the host side team at AOL while the traffic was still doubling every few months), And yet it is I would say very rare to see a good team scale their vision up. AOL was able to onboard new programmers and share the vision, but we never got a different geographic site converted, not really. One tried things with documentation and two person Webex meetings, and code reviews that focus not on being tidy, but here’s how we understand this problem, these are the reasons to do something, this use case is an example of such and such a concept. (Just a final closing comment, be tidy you won’t be happy otherwise.). It can gradually build up over time, but rarely causes teams to catch fire.