Note Tag: team

I’ve talked about Team metaphors before. This is a very sportsy metaphor. (Or is it a simile?) Inevitably it happens that a solid team “finishes the season.” What that looks like in software development is different than sports undoubtedly. But, when the big project or version ships the team no longer shares a single purpose.…

When I was thinking a lot about team dynamics I defaulted to Team metaphors. An issue I came to was how to differentiate between practicing and competing. Okay, so the sports metaphor breaks down there…fine. But, it actually doesn’t if I change my language a little. What if, Instead of practice vs competition, I recognize…

I like to use two categories of metaphor when talking about teams: sports, and music. Within those 2 I lean into soccer (futbol), and garageband. I haven’t played soccer in any real organized way since I was in elementary school. But, it’s an easy sport to watch and see teamwork in action. Knowing how to…

I worked at Modern Tribe from 2017-2020. I should probably capture my career path somewhere here before I forget it. I was learning to think like a developer back then. Things were happening fast in my brain. Many of them not code-related. During my final year there I was on team 5. We were invincible.…