Desperate Remedies

When Patrick’s gone, Ben says he’s got something important to tell you.

“I overheard Patrick telling one of the managers last week that Love Inc. has a number of choices when it comes to the future of software development. They can choose to outsource IT entirely or address the challenges we have one by one, beginning with the Dream Team,” Ben says.

According to Ben, management can either keep the team together as is or split the team up and redistribute the people across other teams. Or they could disband all existing teams and shuffle people around in the hope that a change in team members would be enough to reinvigorate everyone and give the organization a morale boost.

“Whichever choice they pick, it won’t count ...

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