The Moral of the Story

The real reason we achieved a considerable goal that time, however, goes beyond the mere technical aspect. The full exploitation of the great potential of the single individuals was possible only because we set up a fully functional team where everyone was trying to meet each other's needs.

We never grew tired of explaining things to one another, trying someone's new ideas that resonated with others, and generally helping each other every time someone needed it. We were a team of servant leaders where trust, support, and empathy felt natural. We never blamed each other, and together we reviewed improvement points several times without anyone ever feeling personally attached to a piece of code. What a childish concept; it wasn't my code or his code – it was ours.

Creating an environment of truly selfless collaboration allowed everyone to freely try out ideas with the consequence of attaining awesome knowledge and technical implementation...