The Black Box of IT with Jørgen Høll and Jeppe Hedaa – Team Size
Team Size in Army Special Forces – The Black Box of IT: What can IT learn from elite soldiers? Watch this interesting conversation with Jørgen Høll, retired Major General and former Commander of the Danish Special Operations. Jørgen Høll and Jeppe Hedaa talk about the advantages of keeping your team as small as possible and to:
1. Reduce communication complexity
2. Stabilize the team to get to know each other’s strong/weak sides
3. Generally reducing the need for communication
4. Understanding each other’s progression
5. Enabling a project artifact overview
6. The need for secondary roles
7. Managing ambitious specialists
8. How to move on from less successful projects.
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