More on the Anti Team
Joel has another post, and this
quote just killed me:
What
kills me is the teams who get into the bad habit of holding meetings
every time they need to figure out how something is going to work.
To make things fun, add a non-technical project manager to the mix, that just
asks every now and then "how much time it will take?", a business analyst that
can't understand a word of what is going on and keep trying to turn a discussion
about how to manage user's permission in AzMan into a discussion about what the
website should look like. It is best to gather people from at least two other
teams, completely unrelated to the subject at hand, but whose roadmap shows that
in two years, they may need to have a similar feature.
To make things really fun, add two consultants, each with their own
agenda about the products that they want to have, each of them as the
representive of a different manager with political rivalry. At least three
people should be on a long distance conference call, and there is someone that
keeps coughing. Oh, and there is a salesman trying to convice the janitor that
their product will make them work Real Easy and It Really Works Now!
Sigh...
Last week I had two days with no meetings. I think that I managed
more work during those days than in the last two weeks combined.
Oh, and the rest of the post is really good as well, as usual.