links for 2009-05-12

• Project teams are not teams | Agile Software Development
  "Part of the confusion about teams vs. projects is caused by the mistaken assumption that a group of people assigned to a project will work as a team. Unfortunately this is not the case, project teams don't get the chance to behave like teams. Project teams are short-lived, they break up when the project is done or cancelled. They are volatile, people are pulled off the team when needed somewhere else. And often project-teams are unfocussed, older projects still need work so team members work on more than one project and are on more than one team."
  (tags: team development collaboration)
• Why the sea is boiling hot
  "He equates the professionalism I was talking about in my keynote with those repressive environments. He seems to think that professionalism and artistry are mutually exclusive. That wearing a green band means you give up on beauty. That discipline somehow saps programmer happiness."

  Nice argument for artistry and professionalism not being mutually exclusive.

  
  
  (tags: programming artistry professionalism)