at my previous employement, we were using agile (scrum, to be specific). We used to pair-program. Always, the head of the team made sure that you have a new wor

at my previous employement, we were using agile (scrum, to be specific). We used to pair-program. Always, the head of the team made sure that you have a new workmate for a every new project. As such, you got used to know and leverage the different talents of the co-workers. We used to have fun through freestyle coding (once a month) and pseudo-random brownbags where we were learning new techniques in the indurstry. Being in Africa, brownbags were great and everyone of us was always making sure to keep track of what was happening in software world. But when I changed jobs in July last year, I met a different team. I call it a dead team. There is no collaborative development, no source code versioning and tracking. (I am comfortable with git and mercurial). No brownbags, no codefests, no freestyle. Everyone works like a cowboy. I tried introduce agile, the team was just rigid because of the head. Now the head of the team is quitting early September. There are high chances that I may acting as the head of the team after he is gone. But even if I may not be acting, I think I will try again to bring back the culture I used to love. I am guessing it was the head who was refusing to change. Two months ago I tried to introduce git to some workmate, he liked it only that he could not do more with it since the team doesn't use versioning. I have learnt something: some people refuse change.