It’s so easy to become disconnected from others in this increasingly ‘connected’ world. This is quite an irony — the more technology facilitates an always-on interconnected life, the easier it is to become an email hermit and avoid frequent human contact. Often I find that it’s better to pick up the phone and just talk to someone rather than craft the perfect email, spell checked and reviewed for clarity.

Working alone for long periods of time can be quite alienating too. While some people absolutely love the home office setup, I find it a struggle sometimes. So when I feel the walls of my home office closing in, I’ll make a break for Luva Java, one of the very best coffee shops I’ve found in San Francisco. The coffee is superb (so long, Starbucks), wireless access is free, and you can’t beat the ambiance. Sometimes you just need other people around to get things done.

I’ve no doubt that the same applies to software teams, where working together is the key to being successful. As Henry Ford said:

“Coming together is a beginning.
 Keeping together is progress.
 Working together is success.”

I believe that’s particularly true for software teams — the whole is often greater than the sum of its parts.

InnerWorkings Team Purchase

With our eyes fixed firmly on the success of your whole .NET software team, InnerWorkings has just released a new team purchase option on our website. Now you can buy our coding challenges for up to 15 members of your software team in a single transaction from our web catalog. Simply select the number of developers in your team from the drop-down list on our shopping cart and provide a list of their email addresses when prompted. After you checkout, each developer listed in your team will receive a setup email from us explaining who purchased their Drills and how to access their learning content right away. It’s that simple!

If your software team has more than 15 .NET developers, we can offer some enterprise discounts that may be more appealing to you. In this case, simply contact sales@innerworkings.com and our sales team will prepare a custom quote for your business. Either way, we’ve got you and your software team covered…

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