Team Work: A key to success
You will say whats new in this… everybody know that working in teams is lot more effective then working individually. Well i must say i am not going to write anything new but what i am writing here are the points which everyone knows but only few of us follows. The success of a team depends totally on the attitude of team members. I just want to highlight some points to remember as a member of an agile team…
Learn to Listen
Want people to listen to you…then first start listening to them.
Criticize idea not People
If there’s a substantial risk that you will be ridiculed or that you’ll lose face for suggesting an idea, you won’t be inclined to offer another suggestion.
Only outcome is important not credit/blame
In the end only result is what is worth so individual credit/blame are all exercise to kill precious time actually.
Quick fixes become Quicksand
As said above outcome is important.A minor quick fix can revert the whole result in a big picture.Never ever go for it.
Understand Pareto’s Principle
Pareto’s Principle, the 80/20 Rule, should serve as a daily reminder to focus 80 percent of your time and energy on the 20 percent of you work that is really important. Don’t just “work smart”, work smart on the right things. 
In last Remember the team work’s motto “none of us is as good as all of us“.
See my favourite example of teamwork… 
Beautiful thoughts on team work.
We are striving to implementing those at Vinsol.
And with team members like you we are on the way.
You guys ROCK!!
Nice Post. Very truly said “none of us is as good as all of us“.
We can and we will work as a team here at Vinsol.
Great thought. Every team should follow these things.
Well, what you told is really true.
The image gives a exact picture of what you really mean with the team effort.
Well i have doubt here is, I used to follow 80-20 rule and finish off the projects, but problem is doesnt it lower the software development quality, earlier i used to take time learn things, now i am good at working on existing project, but it really hurts we miss big piture of whole project by this rule.
Any thought?
“A picture is worth than 1000’s of words”
And your picture just illustrated it. Teamwork is important, I feel it’s very important especially in Agile Methodologies, where we tend to complete the project with less resource (of course the credit goes to Ruby on Rails )!
good work! Keep it going
Thanks a lot everyone. This things are not unknown. Its just that we do not pay attention towards following them.
Hope this article reminds at least some people to their duties being a team player.