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Building Teams: We Got It All Wrong
This document discusses how teams are most effective for software development. It summarizes research showing that collective intelligence is more important than individual intelligence. The key factors that contribute to strong collective intelligence are social perceptiveness, even communication among team members, and moderate diversity in cognitive styles. Specifically, the research discussed found that teams with more women tended to have higher collective intelligence. The document argues that software development is fundamentally a team sport focused on solving complex problems, rather than relying on any single person's technical skills or intelligence.
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- 12. in·tel·li·gence noun in-ˈte-lə-jən(t)s (1): the ability to learn or understand or to deal with new or trying situations : reason; also : the skilled use of reason (2) : the ability to apply knowledge to manipulate one's environment or to think abstractly as measured by objective criteria (as tests) Souce: http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/intelligence
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- 24. How are individual andcollective intelligence correlated?
- 25. There’s no connection betweenindividual intelligence and collective intelligence Source: Anita Woolley: Collective Intelligence in Human Groups
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- 27. Collective intelligence wasmuch more predictive in terms of succeeding in complex tasks than average individual intelligence or maximal individual intelligence Anita Woolley
- 28. Software development is notwriting code
- 29. Indicators of collective intelligence Source:Anita Woolley: Collective Intelligence in Human Groups
- 30. Indicators of collective intelligence Socialperceptiveness Source: Anita Woolley: Collective Intelligence in Human Groups
- 31. Indicators of collective intelligence Socialperceptiveness Communication quality Source: Anita Woolley: Collective Intelligence in Human Groups
- 32. Indicators of collective intelligence Socialperceptiveness Communication quality Moderate cognitive style diversity Source: Anita Woolley: Collective Intelligence in Human Groups
- 33. Cognitive styles Object viualizers(visual arts) Spatial visualizers (engineering) Verbalizers (humanities) Source: O. Blazhenkova, M. Kozhevnikov: The New Object-Spatial-Verbal Cognitive Style Model
- 34. Indicators of collective intelligence Socialperceptiveness Communication quality Moderate cognitive style diversity Source: Anita Woolley: Collective Intelligence in Human Groups
- 35. How would youfeel about working with women in a team?
- 36. The more womenthe better collective intelligence* Source: Anita Woolley: Collective Intelligence in Human Groups
- 37. It’s not aboutany diversity; it’s about gender
- 38. What team sizemakes it the most effective?
- 39. Bigger teams havebetter collective intelligence* Source: Anita Woolley: Collective Intelligence in Human Groups
- 40. There’s no differencein productivity or quality between teams of 5-9 and 10-12 people Source: Larry Maccherone: Quantifying the impact of Lean, Kanban, and Agile practices
- 41. We got itall wrong
- 42. Sofware development is ateam sport
- 43. Sofware development is aboutsolving complex problems
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- 45. Not technical skills Notindividual intelligence
- 46. Social perceptiveness Evenness ofcommunication Moderate diversity of cognitive styles
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