“One Team One Dream” vs “Another Day Another Dollar”

The reality of IT team morale is often far from IT executives’ slogans. The most effective way to reduce the gap: Continuous Testing.

I worked/consulted for many software projects, and have heard/seen some slogans created by executives. A common one is “One Team, One Dream”. Leading a ‘dream team’ certainly shows leadership quality. However, the attitude from the staff, from my observation, was more like “Another Day, Another Dollar”.

To form a dream team, the members must take pride in their work and feel satisfied from doing good work.

Being software engineers in a team, 100+ defects in the defect tracking system surely will take some of their pride away. However, apart from stressing the team members, there is really no need for defect tracking, as I wrote in the article “Why Don’t I Use Defect Tracking? No Need, I do real Continuous Testing.”

In my opinion, Continuous Testing is the key to glue the team together. The morale of a real Agile Team with a successful CT process is completely different from a ‘so-called agile’…