Quotes About Collaboration

Professional developers do not prevent others from working in the code. They do not build walls of ownership around code. Rather, they work with each other on as much of the system as they can. They learn from each other by working with each other on other parts of the system.

The most efficient and effective way to review code is to collaborate in writing it.

Professionals work together. You can't work together while you are sitting in corners wearing headphones. So I want you sitting around tables facing each other. I want you to be able to smell each other's fear. I want you to be able to overhear someone's frustrated mutterings. I want serendipitous communication, both verbal and body language. I want you communicating as a unit.

You should choose a set of simple rules that govern the format of your code, and then you should consistently apply those rules. If you are working on a team, then the team should agree to a single set of formatting rules and all members should comply.

So, when and why should we use UML? Diagrams are most useful for communicating with others and for helping you work out design problems.

Programming is so hard, in fact, that it is beyond the capability of one person to do it well. No matter how skilled you are, you will certainly benefit from another programmer's thoughts and ideas.

Any organisation that designs a system will produce a design whose structure is a copy of the organisation's communication structure

Programming is a social activity.

It requires the most active cooperation of at least several advanced countries, among which we cannot classify Russia.

Marxism and the National Question was basically Stalin's, and the collaboration with Lenin that underlay it seems to have been mutually beneficial.

The gadget's trivial. It's the network that's useful. Not the gadget but the network.

Second, learn to take advantage of other people's work to further your own cause. Time is precious and life is short. If you try to do it all on your own, you run yourself ragged, waste energy, and burn yourself out. It is far better to conserve your forces, pounce on the work others have done, and find a way to make it your own.

With the company, we should look deeply at the organization itself—how well people communicate with one another, how quickly and fluidly information is passed along. If people are not communicating, if they are not on the same page, no amount of changes in the product or marketing will improve performance.

Be careful in assembling this team that you are not seduced by expertise and intelligence. Character, the ability to work under you and with the rest of the team, and the capacity to accept responsibility and think independently are equally key.

This will rule out working in groups larger than a handful of people—above a certain number, political considerations inevitably rise to the surface. This means working for yourself or on very small startups.

the problem about working with friends is that it confuses the boundaries and distances that working requires.

Since power is a human creation, it is inevitably increased by contact with other people.

You may have brilliant ideas, you may be able to invent unbeatable strategies—but if the group that you lead, and that you depend on to execute your plans, is unresponsive and uncreative, and if its members always put their personal agendas first, your ideas will mean nothing. You must learn the lesson of war: it is the structure of the army—the chain of command and the relationship of the parts to the whole—that will give your strategies force.

Antes que nada, quisiera dar las gracias a Anna Biller por sus incontables contribuciones a este libro:

Any success that we have in life inevitably depends on some good luck, timing, the contributions of others

Un paso crítico en la creación de una eficiente cadena de mando es reunir un equipo calificado que comparta tus metas y valores. Este equipo te dará muchas ventajas: personas entusiastas y motivadas que pueden pensar por sí mismas; una imagen como delegador@, como líder just@ y democrátic@, y un ahorro de tu valiosa energía, que puedes reorientar hacia el panorama general.

To each their own. Skills used unselfishly make for co-operation.

Winning is a wonderful thing if you can help and respect others along the way. But if you stomp on others as you climb the ladder and treat them like losers once you reach the top, my opinion is that you debase your own humanity and undermine your team or organization.

Leadership is not a solo act; it's a team performance.