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"NO MORE TEAMS" by Jim Highsmith

The overused word "team" has lost its meaning.

CREATING CULTURAL CONTEXT by Lyn Worthen, Training Services International

In traditional work environments, a company's culture grows on its own, with little assistance from management.

Systems Design Patterns

Richard Dué, who contributes to Cutter IT Journal from time to time, recently sent me the article that follows. It indeed piqued my interest. I'd like to know what you think.

SYSTEMS DESIGN PATTERNS 26 August 1998 by Richard T. Dué

Richard Dué, who contributes to Cutter IT Journal from time to time, recently sent me the article that follows. It indeed piqued my interest.

I was chatting recently with a new consulting client about the software project that he had just undertaken, suggesting to him that the success of the project would depend less on object-oriented methodology and RAD (rapid application development) tools than on the effectiveness of the project team that had been assigned to work on it.

He looked at me blankly. "Team?" he asked, incredulously. "I don't have a team. At best, it's a committee; at worst, it's a herd of cats."