Managing the Risks of Signing Up
The Signing Up practice is a double-edged sword. It offers tremendous motivational potential, but it also offers as many hazards as any other practice described in this book.
I think of that statistic that the best programmers are 25 times as productive as the worst programmers, and it seems that I am both of those guys. | ||
| --Al Corwin | ||
Increased inefficiency. Teams that are signed up have a tendency to work hard rather than to work smart. Although it's theoretically possible to work hard and work smart, most people seem to be able to do one or the other, but not both. A focus on working hard almost guarantees that they'll make mistakes that they'll live to regret, mistakes that will take more project time rather ...
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