Posts about Teaming

How NOT To Handle Team Conflicts

How NOT To Handle Team Conflicts

Last night we held the final demos for the UW-Madison Computer Science Capstone course that I teach. You can find out all about how the course works here. In a nutshell, students form teams of 4-5 and work on a project for a corporate or non-profit partner all...

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Self-Selecting Teams: Could It Work For You?

This spring, after a large internal reorganization, Opower, the software company I worked for based outside of Washington, DC, experimented with self-selection. Forty distributed engineers were allowed to choose for themselves what team and projects...

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