Cooks & Coders part 2
Service Time For those of you that haven't worked in kitchens full time for a few years or more or read Kitchen Confidential the similarities are striking. In part one I went over the roles and how effective teams exhibit the same traits in different situations. Obviously it's more about jelled trusting (and trusted) teams opposed to much else. The timing and duration might be different between the actual events of building software and a service over an evening in a restaurant, though they are mostly similar for successful teams. As I mentioned before, I've had the pleasure of working in both successful kitchen (teams) and on software projects, in just about all roles so far (made it to 2nd chef and lead dev a few times). Knowing what In both of the situations I don't think (or hope in hindsight that) I ever fell prey to the conceitedness that I was "leading" either teams or situations, I was just aware of what was going on and occasionally asked people to c