Building and Motivating Engineering Teams

Paper we love: Software Engineering Organizations

Papers from the computer science community to read and discuss.

What Google Learned From Its Quest to Build the Perfect Team

“Google's data indicated that psychological safety, more than anything else, was critical to making a team work. (…) The behaviors that create psychological safety — conversational turn-taking and empathy — are part of the same unwritten rules we often turn to, as individuals, when we need to establish a bond.”

Developer Tropes: "Google does it"

It's cargo-cultish to imitate the big names in our industry as a path to success. Instead, the take home from this article “would be that managers and other leaders should be like ecologists; who measure, observe and nurture their ecosystems. Doing so will help build a unique workplace that will yield great results.”