Clever management technique in a shop full of blunt knives will only get you so far. With my team, we’ve focussed on developing talent just as much as we have

Clever management technique in a shop full of blunt knives will only get you so far. With my team, we’ve focussed on developing talent just as much as we have on getting the work done. By improving skills through senior-to-junior coaching and code review we’ve built a much more cohesive team that’s better at what they do and can complete tasks which they couldn’t do before. Dexterity and fluency with code was more important to us than organisational skills. Perhaps I’m missing the point and Scrum is only for people at the top of their game? It didn’t feel that way the few times I’ve seen it — to be a little bitchy, it appeared to be quite the opposite.