11 Courage

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As CTO, I have several expectations related to courage.

We Cover for Each Other

We use the word team to describe a group of developers working on a project. But do we understand what a team really is?

A team is a group of collaborators who understand their goals and their interaction so well that when a team member goes down for some reason, they keep making progress toward their goal. For example, every crew member on board a ship has a job to do. Every crew member also knows how to do someone else’s job—for obvious reasons. The ship has to keep sailing even when a crew member goes down.

I expect that the members of a programming ...

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