3 ms·
Great points about how managers can help, as it is their job. At a company, there are the incentives but the desired output by any means necessary (e.g. relying
by dpflan 3y ago
Great points about how managers can help, as it is their job. At a company, there are the incentives but the desired output by any means necessary (e.g. relying on the “superstar”) can supersede creating a solid team.
Regarding improving group projects in schools: This is not a good idea, but a thought: school groups have rotating “managers” that are made to mainly coordinate and communicate with the professor. This mirrors the dynamic in industry, but I can see it becoming a nightmare, far worse than the current paradigm.
Also, documentation is a great idea, and I think pull requests are useful way to track this and improve the situation - by taking action to fix a problem and create an artifact of the action (with comments on the why).
(the $SLACKER env var is a nice touch. The goal is to have never get defined, but alas.)