Just a word about the Marine analogy in case some manager sees this and gets all excited:
Team work is much more natural if you are up against an external enemy in the broadest sense, like the military, farming, building an aircraft or a group of physicists taming nature.
It does NOT work for creative endeavours with a) a distinct amount of self-expression like programming or writing novels that b) also require enormous amounts of context in the working memory. This is why developers get into fights that easily.
(Please don't counter with "the humble programmer" and all that; we know, and Dijkstra himself wasn't humble.
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Team work is much more natural if you are up against an external enemy in the broadest sense, like the military, farming, building an aircraft or a group of physicists taming nature.
It does NOT work for creative endeavours with a) a distinct amount of self-expression like programming or writing novels that b) also require enormous amounts of context in the working memory. This is why developers get into fights that easily.
(Please don't counter with "the humble programmer" and all that; we know, and Dijkstra himself wasn't humble. )