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> If you were trying to solve any problem with software, which would you choose? > A unmotivated, unskilled team with the best technology... How do you get an
by azangru 4y ago
> If you were trying to solve any problem with software, which would you choose?
> A unmotivated, unskilled team with the best technology...
How do you get an unmotivated and unskilled team with the best technology? Who has picked up the technology? Who has set it up and got it working?
What you frequently see instead is a:
- motivated unskilled team with a mediocre technology (e.g. a bunch of recent bootcamp grads armed with react), or:
- unmotivated skilled team with a mediocre technology (mature developers who have found themselves in a trough of disillusionment, a journey accelerated by business requirements that made them torture their initially beautiful code into an unrecognizable mess, and produced ever-growing resentment)
- AdrianB1 4y ago> How do you get an unmotivated and unskilled team with the best technology? Last year I had a project where I designed the architecture for an IT system for some IT department in a non-IT company. At the end they asked me for help to build a small team to implement and support the system. Unexpectedly their director hired a bunch of zero skill people for that team. One year later, they struggle to build the system that I have designed, with almost no progress. They are an unmotivated and unskilled team with the best technology.