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in thread Catalyst team change

So let's take all the people out of the team and see what's left.

The issue is not whether some person in the team thinks he's bigger than the whole. The problem is that when you stop acknowledging the individual members of the team as just that -- individuals, their own persons -- you run the risk of alienating people. See 1 Cor. 12:14-26 for some biblical reinforcement of the dualism (or is it duality?) of a team.

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Re^3: Catalyst team change
by dragonchild (Archbishop) on May 04, 2006 at 17:34 UTC
    Yes, that is true. (Nice reference, btw. 1st Corinthians is one of the better Epistles, in my opinion.) But, I think acknowledgement that it cuts both ways is necessary. When you are part of a team, you have to be willing to work within the team in order to make the team work. Otherwise, it's nothing but a disparate group of individuals each going their own way. While that works for massive groups, it doesn't work for tightly focused groups that need to produce a cohesive product. Diplomacy, the art of getting along, is all about compromise.

    I'm not saying that everyone should submit to the Collective. I'm saying that you can't have rabid individualism and still expect to produce a good product.

    My criteria for good software:
    1. Does it work?
    2. Can someone else come in, make a change, and be reasonably certain no bugs were introduced?
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