[sinamdar]

Nice article. This "Black Team" is sighted as an example in the book 'Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams'.

[lincolnq]

FYI, "sighted" -> "cited".

Indeed, this story is in Peopleware, and it surprises me that I can find no account of the Black Team which has any details other than those I can find in Peopleware. It makes me wonder whether the story is apocryphal.