Comments on: The Art of the Exit http://blogs.snowmoonsoftware.com/editorial/the-art-of-the-exit/ Connecting ideas to code Mon, 21 Apr 2008 02:21:49 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Jeff http://blogs.snowmoonsoftware.com/editorial/the-art-of-the-exit/comment-page-1/#comment-41 Jeff Sat, 08 Sep 2007 23:22:49 +0000 http://blogs.snowmoonsoftware.com/editorial/the-art-of-the-exit/#comment-41 Thanks Hans, I had fun writing it. Personal agendas do get in the way of a good team culture, as you say but what I experienced was a place that professed to have a great culture but it was only in theory, not practice. The developers were pretty much united in a common cause of making the code, and thus the product better, but were not allowed to do so. There are big changes in the air there, and it will be interesting to see how it all shakes out. Thanks Hans, I had fun writing it. Personal agendas do get in the way of a good team culture, as you say but what I experienced was a place that professed to have a great culture but it was only in theory, not practice. The developers were pretty much united in a common cause of making the code, and thus the product better, but were not allowed to do so.

There are big changes in the air there, and it will be interesting to see how it all shakes out.

]]> By: Hans-Eric Grönlund http://blogs.snowmoonsoftware.com/editorial/the-art-of-the-exit/comment-page-1/#comment-40 Hans-Eric Grönlund Fri, 31 Aug 2007 14:14:02 +0000 http://blogs.snowmoonsoftware.com/editorial/the-art-of-the-exit/#comment-40 Very interesting, great post! It's a very common phenomena in big companies that a large amount of the employees have their own agendas. Thus it's hard for them to grow team cultures, leading to a spiral of death for enthusiasm. One problem is that the ones who are hired to prevent this, the managers, often themselves are not inspired enough to do a good job. They should be more like the HR-person you experienced. Very interesting, great post!
It’s a very common phenomena in big companies that a large amount of the employees have their own agendas. Thus it’s hard for them to grow team cultures, leading to a spiral of death for enthusiasm.
One problem is that the ones who are hired to prevent this, the managers, often themselves are not inspired enough to do a good job. They should be more like the HR-person you experienced.

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