[teampractices] "It will never work in theory"

[Chris McMahon]

And these days I'm more interested in stuff like this:
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/18/opinion/sunday/why-some-teams-are-smarter-than-others.html?_r=0
(which
also discusses remote teams)

(Overview of two studies published in Science)

Instead, the smartest teams were distinguished by three characteristics.

First, their members contributed more equally to the team’s discussions,
rather than letting one or two people dominate the group.

Second, their members scored higher on a test called Reading the Mind in
the Eyes, which measures how well people can read complex emotional states
from images of faces with only the eyes visible.

Finally, teams with more women outperformed teams with more men.

On Tue, Jan 20, 2015 at 8:17 AM, Chris McMahon <cmcmahon at wikimedia.org>
wrote:

>
>
> On Mon, Jan 19, 2015 at 6:50 PM, Greg Grossmeier <greg at wikimedia.org>
> wrote:
>>
>>
>> I disagree with the term "software engineering" to describe the software
>> development that happens today. I don't think it's accurate, and indeed
>> I think the concept's too much of a fantasy for the term to be used
>> seriously about practicing developers do.
>
>
> Back when I used to write about such things I argued that software
> development expressly is not and can not be engineering*. (I have reasons
> for believing this if you want to talk about it...) This is my favorite
> piece, and even Andy Hunt said nice things about on on Twitter at the time,
> which is apparently unusual:
> https://pragprog.com/magazines/2010-11/writing-and-performing . I have a
> few other bits along those lines in various places as well.
>
> * As I understand it, it is illegal in Texas to call yourself a "Software
> Engineer".  The State of Texas requires that anyone with the title
> "Engineer" have a degree or certification from an accredited engineering
> program, and "software engineering" is not acceptable.
>
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