[sokoloff]

It’s uncomfortable to write down that “Abel is here primarily because he’s good friends with the CTO but he mostly stays out of the way, Baker is the one who really knows what’s going on but can’t write reliable code, and Charlie is a code monster but doesn’t have the faintest idea of nor interest in how our business actually works.”

Pick your combinations of what pros and cons each team member brings, but it’s rare for the unvarnished truth about your people map to be exclusively positive.