Nerdlife

CMU has a mini-course on their west coast campus that I decided to take.  It’s a course about Silicon Valley programming methods and styles.  At the beginning of the course we were given this question:

You’re starting a new 10 person development team working on a new product.  What structure would you provide so that the team was most likely to succeed.

Here are some of our responses, which could all lead into long discussions about both whether or not the ideas have merit and why these ideas came to mind over others:

• Fire seven people
• Cool project name/t-shirts!
• Buy everyone big monitors and comfy chairs
• Find bar w/ happy hour
• Free booze & red bull

Tags: cmu, organization