Comments on: Multi-site teams: travel and the half life of trust http://leansoftwareengineering.com/2009/08/06/multi-site-teams-travel-and-the-half-life-of-trust/ Essays on the Continuous Delivery of High Quality Information Systems Mon, 22 Feb 2010 09:08:24 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Bernie Thompson http://leansoftwareengineering.com/2009/08/06/multi-site-teams-travel-and-the-half-life-of-trust/comment-page-1/#comment-6139 Bernie Thompson Fri, 30 Oct 2009 17:25:57 +0000 http://leansoftwareengineering.com/?p=1951#comment-6139 Hi Matthias - very good point. And, in fact, where you do have "teams" within open source - usually people working for Canonical vs. Red Hat vs. Intel, etc. -- those tensions and "us vs. them" feelings definitely rear their heads (e.g. see http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3385088017824733336 ) The "pressure valve" is the choice to (at least temporarily) branch and deliver competing versions -- even if it's not always the right thing for the technology or for the end-user. And that happens all the time in Open Source. Commercial companies tend to force their teams to deliver just one thing. Hi Matthias – very good point. And, in fact, where you do have “teams” within open source – usually people working for Canonical vs. Red Hat vs. Intel, etc. — those tensions and “us vs. them” feelings definitely rear their heads (e.g. see http://video.google.com/videop.....7824733336 ) The “pressure valve” is the choice to (at least temporarily) branch and deliver competing versions — even if it’s not always the right thing for the technology or for the end-user. And that happens all the time in Open Source. Commercial companies tend to force their teams to deliver just one thing.

]]> By: Matthias Marschall http://leansoftwareengineering.com/2009/08/06/multi-site-teams-travel-and-the-half-life-of-trust/comment-page-1/#comment-6071 Matthias Marschall Fri, 11 Sep 2009 08:36:04 +0000 http://leansoftwareengineering.com/?p=1951#comment-6071 There is one important difference between open source projects and corporate settings that is often overlooked. In an open source project you usually have _individuals_ working together whereas in corporate settings, you usually have _teams_. In my experience it is very important to understand the team dynamics at all locations as they re-enforce the "us vs them" feelings. There is one important difference between open source projects and corporate settings that is often overlooked.

In an open source project you usually have _individuals_ working together whereas in corporate settings, you usually have _teams_.

In my experience it is very important to understand the team dynamics at all locations as they re-enforce the “us vs them” feelings.

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