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Originally posted by gwross
Thanks Verdey, I knew I was going to have to respond if someone didn't express my position before I had a chance.
Consider: How graciously professional is it to keep secrets just so you can whomp on unsuspecting rookies? (I say not at all!)
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One last point:
I think the best experience our team ever had is when we once got whompped by a veteran team. It took our thinking to another level and made our team much better.
Another analogy for this point is the kid touching a hot stove: you can tell them why they shouldn't, but until they feel the "whomp" of the hot stove, they won't really learn.
It's not that I'm advocating that all rookie teams should get "whompped". If the team really does a great job and solves the problem(s) really well, then that's great. But if people keep handing things to the rookies on a silver platter, they're not really learning anything.
As a current graduate student in engineering, it's a constant theme that the professors keep bringing up: "you need to struggle with the problem". They always say that's where the real learning is. I just think that every team learns more when they struggle through a problem. I'm just advocating that we let them struggle instead of handing things to them.