Quotes About Teamwork

we are not talking to one another about what changes we're planning or implementing. This is not acceptable.

Solving any complex business problem requires teamwork, and teamwork requires trust.

when projects are late, adding more developers not only decreases individual developer productivity but also decreases overall productivity.

For the leader, it no longer means directing and controlling, but guiding, enabling, and removing obstacles.

virtualized environments from Bill's team work as expected, we can go into production one week from Friday." I gape at Chris. He just made up an arbitrary date to go into production, with complete disregard for all the things we need to do before deployment. I have a sudden flashback. In the Marines, we had a ritual for

The job of the bridge crew is to ensure the company strategy is viable, not to remind them of the strategy or to micromanage everyone to death. Their job should be to ensure everyone can get their work done.

the part about the product manager not showing up for the demo pisses her off. What a disrespectful thing to do to engineers who built what you asked them to.

business project work as one.

You can't just throw the pig over the wall to us, and

Five Dysfunctions of a Team, by Patrick Lencioni.

a system where small teams of engineers are able to work productively and independently of each other, with components painstakingly and splendidly isolated from each other, instead of being complected into a giant, ugly, knotty mess.

The famous Andon cord is just one of their many tools that enable learning. When anyone encounters a problem, everyone is expected to ask for help at any time, even if it means stopping the entire assembly line. And they are thanked for doing so, because it is an opportunity to improve daily work.

Creating software should be a collaborative and conversational endeavor—individuals need to interact with each other to create new knowledge and value for the customer.

When every team expedites their work, the net result is that every project ends up moving at the same slow crawl.

makes me angry when we need to make some heroic, diving catch because of someone else's lack of planning.

In high-performing organizations, everyone within the team shares a common goal—quality, availability, and security aren't the responsibility of individual departments but are a part of everyone's job, every day.

Before, I was merely worried that it Operations was under attack by Development, Information Security, Audit, and the business. Now, I'm starting to realize that my primary managers seem to be at war with each other, as well. What will it take for us to all get along?

When new learnings are discovered locally, there must also be some mechanism to enable the rest of the organization to use and benefit from that knowledge.

how we organize our teams has a powerful effect on the software we produce, as well as our resulting architectural and production outcomes. In

Done poorly, Conway's Law will prevent teams from working safely and independently; instead, they will be tightly-coupled together, all waiting on each other for work to be done, with even small changes creating potentially global, catastrophic consequences.

the leader's role is to create the conditions so their team can discover greatness in their daily work.

Researchers at Google spent years on Project Oxygen and found that psychological safety was one of the most important factors of great teams: where there was confidence that the team would not embarrass, reject, or punish someone for speaking up.

Instead of project teams where developers are reassigned and shuffled around after each release, never receiving feedback on their work, we keep teams intact so they can keep iterating and improving, using those leanings to better achieve their goals.

Picture this scenario: You are in an organization where everyone is making decisions, solving important problems every day, and teaching others what they've learned," Erik says. "Your adversary is an organization where only the top leaders make decisions. Who will win? Your victory is inevitable.