Team Lunch

Joel Spolsky has a piece on eating lunch with your team. As usual, he demonstrates wisdom and intelligence.

The teams with which I have been most successful have been teams that ate lunch together. Eating lunch together means an opportunity for unstructured conversation. Unstructured conversation may include:

  • Jokes about each other
  • Jokes about other teams
  • Jokes about each other’s moms
  • Serious conversations regarding video games
  • Relations of lessons hard-learned

Four of the five items in the list above are beneficial to both group cohesiveness and individual knowledge and productivity. Can you guess which four?

Trick question; the correct answer is all five.