Siu Lun

Today I want to document my views and plans on assembling a world class team over the next N years that can produce some outstanding work with little or no trouble.

First of all, I would like to discuss what personalities I believe I need.

Ordered by my preference

1. Honest
2. Frank
3. Willing to learn
4. “Gets on with it”
5. Friendly / Easy going
6. Communicative
7. Unfazed
8. Responsible
9. Considerate
10. Time management
11. Intelligence

I think I can only think of these much at the moment. Now I’ll explain why, lets start from the bottom.

Intelligence
Intelligence is always a requirement, I need people to be able to think. However it is at the bottom of my priority when choosing a team member. Why? Simply because I believe there are more important things than being intelligent.

Time management
Time is money. In one way or another, that statement is true. Without the ability to manage time, your team could lead you to lose money. However, this is again not a high priority characteristic, as most of the time the individual will be working as part of a team, and if their team working and responsibility skill is high, I believe time management comes automatically. This is only a requirement when an individual will work alone for an extended period of time.

Now the last two characteristics I’ve mentioned while it is on the list, I would not say they’re of the utmost importance, but from here on, if I am able to put characteristics in parallel, they’re all high priority characteristics I would look for.

Considerate
Being considerate is important, without the ability to be considerate, or essentially, put yourself into another’s shoes. I would say they are less likely to be polite to others, be courteous and the general liklihood is, they’ll make bad personnel to be shown to your clients. In addition, they’ll be less likely to be able to make useful/considered contributions to creating a solution for your clients. However, this characteristics is not as important as what’s coming up next, the reason being, while in an ideal world, it would be great to have a team of superman/woman, this does not happen, and in a development house, the liklihood is that if only part of the team is considerate, that would be enough.

That’s it for part 1.