This is an awesome list. What I love most: these are all interpersonal and communication skills. As techies (Or maybe this is a tendency of just male techies?) we often look at issues like trust, compassion, support as something to be abstracted away under a layer of technical process. We'll say, "I don't need their support, I need admin privileges in Jira so I can assign tickets to them."
I honestly think that hiring for excellent personal skills is more important than hiring for technical skills. As long as someone wants to learn, and the team is there to help, B-level technical skills can be upgraded. But it seems to be incredibly hard to convince a developer that their D-level personal skills are hurting the team.
Christopher, happy to hear that you find awesome my summary of principles behind good teams!
If you read between the lines, you will notice that teams most likely are not great from the start. This is a journey, that requires involvement and sometimes compromise from everyone.
Regarding interpersonal and communication skills vs male and female techies, I've worked with both and I don't think this is a differentiating factor. Cultural background, personality, maturity, willingness to change and to learn, seniority are just a few factors that could directly impact how one adapts in a team and helps the others fit in.
I agree with you that hiring for excellent personal skills is more important than hiring technical skills. Unfortunately, nowadays it is a challenge sometimes to find somebody to hire at all. Ideally, companies would have a way to support and best leverage employees from both categories you mentioned so that B-level technical skills further upgrade their knowledge and D-level personal skills are corrected.
It was very easy for me to make the list above especially because it's what I believe in and what I try to "enforce" on a daily basis. However, it's no as easy to apply, otherwise, all teams would be great! :)
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This is an awesome list. What I love most: these are all interpersonal and communication skills. As techies (Or maybe this is a tendency of just male techies?) we often look at issues like trust, compassion, support as something to be abstracted away under a layer of technical process. We'll say, "I don't need their support, I need admin privileges in Jira so I can assign tickets to them."
I honestly think that hiring for excellent personal skills is more important than hiring for technical skills. As long as someone wants to learn, and the team is there to help, B-level technical skills can be upgraded. But it seems to be incredibly hard to convince a developer that their D-level personal skills are hurting the team.
Christopher, happy to hear that you find awesome my summary of principles behind good teams!
If you read between the lines, you will notice that teams most likely are not great from the start. This is a journey, that requires involvement and sometimes compromise from everyone.
Regarding interpersonal and communication skills vs male and female techies, I've worked with both and I don't think this is a differentiating factor. Cultural background, personality, maturity, willingness to change and to learn, seniority are just a few factors that could directly impact how one adapts in a team and helps the others fit in.
I agree with you that hiring for excellent personal skills is more important than hiring technical skills. Unfortunately, nowadays it is a challenge sometimes to find somebody to hire at all. Ideally, companies would have a way to support and best leverage employees from both categories you mentioned so that B-level technical skills further upgrade their knowledge and D-level personal skills are corrected.
It was very easy for me to make the list above especially because it's what I believe in and what I try to "enforce" on a daily basis. However, it's no as easy to apply, otherwise, all teams would be great! :)