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If you want your development team to be autonomous, rapid and creative, then you need to ensure that they have the room to move so that can occur. Often teams are given a very tight brief, which leads to the group of smart people you hired taking time to convince you on an alternative solution, or actually just not being in a mindset which drives innovation and excellence. You’ll get good functional software for sure, but getting what you asked for isn’t always a blessing. If you …

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Self-reported skills are typically very inaccurate. Inexperienced users tend to overestimate their skills (because they don’t realise their own incompetence), and experienced users tend to underestimate their skill level (they are aware of the edges of their knowledge and all the things that remain to be learnt). It is important to realise that the only way to really gage the skill level of someone is to directly test that particular skill. If you’re going to have a decent sample size, and ship a product in a reasonable …