Beware of Gurus

Theres one in every IT department. You know the ones. They know everything, they say the right buzz words, sound confident in what they say. They sometimes save the day by working late and fixing a live bug. Management love them because they are so confident, they are reassuring. This guy knows what his talking about.

Problem is that they like working on their own. They do everything without involving anyone else. They go off on a tangent and redo the whole code without talking to anyone about it. Thats the problem. They tend to write technically, rocket science code, that seems impressive - but no one else understands it. Theres no point writing stuff that only one person understands.

Its better to have people who talk to each other, are good in a team and get consensus on writing code, which is a team effort.

So beware of Gurus. Get team players instead.