How to be a Creative Leader
the programmer dungeon – does it work – do we have stories
– devs need to control their environment
– werner – keeps team small
teams should not be larger than you can feed with 2 pizzas
cannot have group meeting without regulating it
Jim Roberts – when they whine they have lost interest – no whining but swearing is ok
Whole New Mind by Dan Pink – MFA is new MBA
Richar Florida flight of the creative class – immigration and lasck of divversity means crewativity is going elsewhere
HBS – sparking creativity at ferrari
Werner got ink in fortune the other day – optimum team size is 4.6 (uses the Beatles as the best example)
Fred Brooks – myth Man Month – ther is no silver bullet – techniques and tools – came down to fund. conc. – highly prod creative teams – hire good people and passionately involved with what they are doin
otherwise – tech. for the wrong team to get them to do the right thing
paul grahm – hackers and painters
the deadline – a novel about project management
werner – all about enablign creativity and expect the random to happen
will pay you back 100 x
get out of the way and let them be successful
Todd from Pandora –
give them dates
give them direction
givve them ideas
continue to tell them how valuable they are
Joel Spolsky – the developer abstraction layer