Cybernetics

It is worldcup frenzy time.

And watching all these matches really makes me think “a football” team works just like a web development team.

If we strip off the context, then at the end of it we get exactly the same thing. A team playing their best for a simple objective. Put the ball in a goal

For a start a football team:

11 players all specialised in their own speciality (goal, keeper, striker, wing, defender). & Coach a trainer, manager, all playing with one objective: Win as many matches as possible ..etc.

A web development team works in the same way.

Many players (systems, expert, developper), the project manager would be the coach, manager, trainer. All playing with one objective. Put the website online.

These all have their similarities. We need to select the best specialist for the task which we are doing. We need to train them. We need the developpers to run the sprints as fast and as well as possible. The coach is there to bring support to the team., and make money (satisfied customers or supports on the other).

There are a huge amount of similarities between these 2 fields (catering, building, police, hospitals), but at the same time this can be said for almost any other job. It is just simple management really.