Cat Hicks – The Psychology of Software Teams

The Psychology of Software TeamsVon Cat HicksBeitrag auf der Website ansehen I had an interesting feeling while reading Cat Hicks’ The Psychology of Software Teams: a lot of it did not feel completely new to me. Instead, it put experiences and beliefs I already had into a psychological context. Things I had observed in software teams suddenly had names, research and explanations attached to them. One of the biggest themes for me is learning. We often treat learning as something that should somehow happen alongside the actual work. But if we expect people to learn new tools, understand new domains or solve unfamiliar problems, we also need to name this work and give it time. A learning culture does not just happen because a company says learning is important. People need actual room for it. This connects to something as simple as rubber ducking. Explaining a problem to someone else often helps us understand it better than just reading more about it. It is about generating explanations,…