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A Measure of Your Team's Health: How You Treat Your "Idiot"

Posted by samzenpus on from the bottom-of-the-barrel dept.

Esther Schindler (16185) writes "Every team has someone who at the bottom of its bell curve: an individual who has a hard time keeping up with other team members. How your team members treat that person is a significant indicator of your organization's health. That's especially true for open source projects, where you can't really reject someone's help. All you can do is encourage participation... including by the team "dummy.""

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  1. Really? by sethradio · · Score: 5, Funny

    I can't rejects someones help on my open source projects? Linus Torvalds is really mean then.

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    1. Re:Really? by sethradio · · Score: 5, Funny

      Considering my grammar, I must be the idiot in this case.

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    2. Re:Really? by OakDragon · · Score: 4, Funny

      I was wondering if this is a case of "if you don't know who the team idiot is, YOU are the team idiot"...

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    3. Re: Really? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

      It is coincidence. Our team idiot is the company owner.

  2. Re:even more telling... by Ultracrepidarian · · Score: 3, Funny

    He is the manager.