Each development team there is always a person is the worst, the overall level of the old can not keep up. According to my observation, teammates treat the poor students of attitude is an important indicator of the health of the team. (Note: The original team to measure the overall level of distribution with a "bell curve (bell curve)", which is "normal", meaning here translated as "the overall level.")
My luck has been good over the past few decades, worked a variety of industries and occupations, stayed in a lot of teams are harmonious atmosphere and highly skilled development team. Not to say that each project is successful, (external factors beyond the control), but the experience will always have profound value.
The success of the development team, the most notable feature is the players respect each other - "He is good at doing this, also like to do this very well because I do not like to do this..."). Everyone understands the truth strength in numbers, and cherish his teammates skills. If you stayed in this team (or you have managed such a group of guys), you know what I mean.
Regardless of these gold team is a combination of online community, the corporate sector and volunteer organizations have a common characteristic: Each team has such a man - we can call it a harmless fool, but the point is, we did this person very well.
In a volunteer software development team I stayed in, Elliot is that stupid. Accurately describe it, this guy is a warm-hearted people, but did not mind. Like a big puppy, he is a warm-hearted, but often meaning but misguided. He is helpful, and it is the envy of other people do better than him. (In fact all they are doing better than him.)
Elliot always make things hit, even if he has a very serious and hard work. Nobody would mission-critical to the success of the project in relation to his office. He never realized that live their own delivery problems, I always say to help him rewrite the document, but the document after the release of his consistent to the effect that he did not realize was rewritten. Elliot often do for everyone scratching their heads, but he is still happily with those he believes to know what to do and how to do it behind people's ass.
But everyone understand him. Man working team of volunteers trying to help him, so that he can really contribute their one strength, and his high work ethic and dedication of spirit seen his advantage. Even engage in community activities also need people to be placed in the foreground folding chairs or welcome it. We all have to live like he did.
He is a bit stupid, but he is our simple-minded. We will complain privately, you roll your eyes, sigh or complain: "No way, Elliot is one such." But if a stranger dares to bully him, we'll kink his neck. I want to say is, Elliot died several years ago. Organization of all who knew him have attended his funeral. Life is not like that as we care for him. For each of us, he is memorable.
Since I know Elliot, I began to observe this phenomenon. Each development team, no matter how good or bad, there is always at the bottom of (whether from intelligence, efficiency or other aspects look). The overall level of the team depending on the type of industry may be measured by a team of scientists working with the value and efficiency of the standard measure of a set of completely different landscape designer.
Your team in the bottom of the Elliot, change to another occasion, perhaps a master. But then there will always be the bottom of a person.
In the discordant team, this will be treated as simple-minded idiot. People bullied him, despise him, he was unfriendly, you can guess how much it will have adverse effects. But know how to appreciate the mutual understanding capability gaps team, the situation is different.
This positive characteristic is particularly evident in the emphasis on the participation of teams, such as user groups, open source project team, community-based organizations. In these cases, you can not because of the quality of work is lacking and a member of his expulsion, so you have to actively deal with those volunteers. Business organizations should draw a lesson, we have seen people expelled from the organization had a slight lack of ability rather than helping them find competent job.
The problem is that you as a project manager is how to treat this simple-minded men of you? Your team is how to deal with her?
I'd love to be able to provide some "how to?" Starts with advice to you? .. but in fact these are useless. Not simply know what to do on the line, while taking into account the culture of your team. How to deal with the leadership team and employee representatives of the backward culture of the team, marking the harmony of the team. If you are good to them, they will reward you, the results will be reflected in the final product there.
If you know how to deal with examples of the worst on the team members, the team's corporate culture feature creates what impact, whether it is good or bad, please tell me.