This document discusses how teams are most effective for software development. It summarizes research showing that collective intelligence is more important than individual intelligence. The key factors that contribute to strong collective intelligence are social perceptiveness, even communication among team members, and moderate diversity in cognitive styles. Specifically, the research discussed found that teams with more women tended to have higher collective intelligence. The document argues that software development is fundamentally a team sport focused on solving complex problems, rather than relying on any single person's technical skills or intelligence.

1. Building Teams
We Got It All Wrong
Pawel Brodzinski
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2. Hi, I’m Pawel
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3. Teamwork

4. Teamwork

5. What makes one a great
candidate?

6. Technical skills?

7. Craftsmanship?

8. Communication skills?

9. Learning?

10. Something else?

11. Software developer
superhero

12. in·tel·li·gence noun in-ˈte-lə-jən(t)s
(1) : the ability to learn or understand or to deal with
new or trying situations : reason; also : the skilled
use of reason
(2) : the ability to apply knowledge to manipulate
one's environment or to think abstractly as measured
by objective criteria (as tests)
Souce: http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/intelligence

13. Experiment

14. 791864

15. Fish eat candy

16. Mice are bigger than dogs

17. 17th century cars were slow

18. Red lemons are sweeter

19. Japaneese currency is USD

20. Java is interpreted language

21. Thank you

22. Intelligence
is fragile

23. Intelligence
versus
Collective Intelligence

24. How are individual
and collective intelligence
correlated?

25. There’s no connection
between individual
intelligence and
collective intelligence
Source: Anita Woolley: Collective Intelligence in Human Groups

26. Collective intelligence
trumps
individual intelligence

27. Collective intelligence was much more
predictive in terms of succeeding in
complex tasks than average individual
intelligence or maximal individual
intelligence
Anita Woolley

28. Software development
is not writing code

29. Indicators of collective
intelligence
Source: Anita Woolley: Collective Intelligence in Human Groups

30. Indicators of collective
intelligence
Social perceptiveness
Source: Anita Woolley: Collective Intelligence in Human Groups

31. Indicators of collective
intelligence
Social perceptiveness
Communication quality
Source: Anita Woolley: Collective Intelligence in Human Groups

32. Indicators of collective
intelligence
Social perceptiveness
Communication quality
Moderate cognitive style diversity
Source: Anita Woolley: Collective Intelligence in Human Groups

33. Cognitive styles
Object viualizers (visual arts)
Spatial visualizers (engineering)
Verbalizers (humanities)
Source: O. Blazhenkova, M. Kozhevnikov: The New Object-Spatial-Verbal Cognitive Style Model

34. Indicators of collective
intelligence
Social perceptiveness
Communication quality
Moderate cognitive style diversity
Source: Anita Woolley: Collective Intelligence in Human Groups

35. How would you feel about
working with women
in a team?

36. The more women the
better collective
intelligence*
Source: Anita Woolley: Collective Intelligence in Human Groups

37. It’s not about any
diversity;
it’s about gender

38. What team size makes it
the most effective?

39. Bigger teams have better
collective intelligence*
Source: Anita Woolley: Collective Intelligence in Human Groups

40. There’s no difference in
productivity or quality
between teams of 5-9 and
10-12 people
Source: Larry Maccherone: Quantifying the impact of Lean, Kanban, and Agile practices

41. We got it all wrong

42. Sofware development
is a team sport

43. Sofware development
is about solving
complex problems

44. Collective intelligence
trumps
individual intelligence

45. Not technical skills
Not individual intelligence

46. Social perceptiveness
Evenness of communication
Moderate diversity of
cognitive styles

47. TL;DR: More women!

48. Thank you
Pawel Brodzinski
brodzinski.com
lunarlogic.io
@pawelbrodzinski