I love this question: “what would happen if everyone on the team did the job they were least qualified for & spent half their time helping others?” @KentBeck
Here’s what I think would happen:
- The completion of work would slow down for a couple weeks. Maybe a month.
- New talents would form.
- Inter-team communication, understanding, and empathy would get amazingly good.
- Cross training would actually happen, and single-points-of-failure would disappear.
- The business would see fewer things down because ___ was on vacation.
- Then the completion of work would start happening faster than it ever had before.
- And new ideas for old problems would start cropping up all over the place.
- And a whole bunch of “broken” things would get fixed (poor processes, kludgy systems, etc).
- And the team would re- self organize, and perform like never has before.
It would be brilliant.
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Hi Peter,
how are ya doin?. . .I’m just about officially a self- employed consultant. . soon, I’ll have a web site and a blog. .yet, I doubt if people will enjoy it nearly as much as I do yours. I was just catching up on your past month or so postings. .
May I use /quote/copy this one?. .One of the things I’ll be doing is training. .and helping businesses or organizations assess how they can improve– as you do– but I will not touch the technology stuff. In fact, if I ever have the opportunity to, I will give them your website here to contact you.
The name of my company will be A+Plus Collaboration Associates. .and if we can collaborate on some consulting, training, or if you know of someone who would like to look into hiring a personal (wise & witty) coach/mentor, you can send them my way!
hope all is well with you!
Lea
PS. .I have been taking an unplanned permanent sabbatical from Alternative Gifts Intl. .since March. Can’t remember if I told you that.