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Q. Is it better to work in teams or on your own?
A. This depends on the skill sets of your staff - do they only have single skills or multiple skills?
Well this depends on the kind of product you are putting together. However, for many small projects, a single guy working on his own can turn in a useful result. If the project gets a little bigger, let us say around the 6 man months mark, then it can be helped by breaking out some of the art and letting the artistic specialists do that. Until their work is completed however, the programmer cannot do very much and you do need a group of people who understand intimately how each other works. The bigger the team, the harder it is to make sure that they work cohesively together. One way that I see working very well is to get a senior guy and a junior guy working together. They can discuss technical objectives on a more or less equal footing and the senior engineer can mentor the junior. A pair of people working enthusiastically together can be a powerful unit. This can work in other disciplines too but for software it’s close to optimal.
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