Comments by "" (@brownhorsesoftware3605) on "Team Topologies, Cognitive Load u0026 Complex Systems | Matthew Skelton In The Engineering Room Ep. 12" video.

Thank you for another great thought-provoking video! My career has been defined by the great team or two I have managed to be a part of. Something even more important than sharing top skills within a team is how they have your back. That is what transforms a group into a team. Also, I'd like to point out that people who work on mobile phone software have a term for a phone that does not connect to anything: it is called a brick. I have (mostly) worked remotely since 1991 when I was told to do so after an acquisition landed me in a cubicle in a huge open sales office where phonecalls were announced over the intercom and the colleague seated next to me spent all day talking on the phone to his mother in Russian. Every few minutes a plaintive "Ma-ma!" My productivity went through the roof. After that, except for a few years after an employer was destroyed in the twin towers, I worked for companies with an office on the other side of a continent or an ocean or the planet. One makes adjustments for the time difference but most of the time we simply communicated through code. The occasional email as needed and a weekly stand-up where everyone has 90 second max to give an update. But this can only work when there is a high level of both trust and safety.
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