What's it like to work on a great software development team facing an impossible problem? How do you build an effective team? Beautiful Teams: Inspiring and Cautionary Tales from Veteran Team Leaders takes you behind the scenes with some of the most interesting teams in software engineering history. In this excerpt from the book, editors Andrew Stellman and Jennifer Greene, interview Tim O'Reilly, O'Reilly's founder and CEO, about leadership.
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Talking to Tim O'Reilly about the Architecture of Participation
An Excerpt from Beautiful Teams
A new book from O'Reilly, Beautiful Teams, takes you behind the scenes with some of the most interesting teams in software engineering history. In a series of entertaining, informative, and thought provoking essays you'll learn about the successes and failures of leading programmers, architects, project managers, and thought leaders. You'll hear the tales from Tim O'Reilly, Cory Doctorow, Andy Lester, and more. Here we give you a sneak peek from Beautiful Teams--Scott Berkun's essay on "Why Ugly Teams Win."
At TOC, Tim O'Reilly, the founder and CEO of O'Reilly Media, eloquently answered a question posed by Matthew Bernius, the co-director of the Open Publishing Lab at RIT. The question: "Why should publishing be open?" Tim's answer: "We have found through experiments that we can make a living when we give our content away." It's simple, Tim insists. All you have to do is pick the hat to fit the head. Watch the video to learn more.
Tim O'Reilly, founder of O'Reilly Media, didn't mince words as he addressed the crowd this morning at Web 2.0 Expo in New York City. As CNET reported today, he said: "You have to conclude, if you look at the focus of a lot of what you call 'Web 2.0,' the relentless focus on advertising-based consumer models, lightweight applications, we may be living in somewhat of a bubble, and I'm not talking about an investment bubble. (It's) a reality bubble." Indeed, in the wake of Wall Street's tumble and anxiety all around, Tim is asking people to think about what they would do differently and to "work on stuff that matters." Click here to view Tim's keynote at the Expo.
In today’s Santa Rosa Press Democrat story about Twittering, Tim O’Reilly offered some pithy and poetic insights to reporter Nathan Halverson on mini-blogging.





