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How is it any different than hiring from outside, where ostensibly you're trying to hire people to make the team better?
by nirvdrum 15y ago
How is it any different than hiring from outside, where ostensibly you're trying to hire people to make the team better?
- petervandijck 15y agoYou kill the magic of a successful team if you spread them out. If a team works great together, you should keep them together. The team dynamics are a lot of that success.
- bmajz 15y agoSometimes, it really does help though. The team running Windows 7 and now Windows 8 was the core of Office (Steven Sinofsky, Julie Larson-Green, Jon DeVaan). They really helped shake off the engineering problems during the Vista timeframe and enabled a really cool, successful product in Windows 7. Same with Terry Myerson (mentioned in this article) and his success first with Exchange and now Windows Phone.
- Someone 15y agoI am not familiar with what happened there, but the way you describe it, that is not "spreading around" a team, but moving an entire team to a new project. Spreading around a team is like spreading around a kindling fire. Moving it to a new project is like adding fuel.
- nirvdrum 15y agoI don't disagree with this. But I read your comment as moving people to another team couldn't make that new team any better. Perhaps I just misunderstood.