# Can Your Team Pass The Elevator Test? - Host: [blog.codinghorror.com](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/hosts/blog.codinghorror.com/) - Saved: September 28, 2007 (2007-09-28T16:37:21Z) - Record: https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/bcd9db12f03b/ - JSON: https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/bcd9db12f03b.json ## From the page (probably an excerpt, not Jamie's words) Software developers do love to code. But very few of them, in my experience, can explain why they're coding. Try this exercise on one of your teammates if you don't believe me. Ask them what they're doing. Then ask them why they're doing it, and keep aski ## Facts - Kind: [Page](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/kinds/page/) ## Same host - [The Ten Commandments of Egoless Programming](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/3e6cea6cd5b5/) (blog.codinghorror.com, March 29, 2012) - [Please Don't Learn to Code](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/3fbb49354a9a/) (blog.codinghorror.com, May 16, 2012) - [How to Stop Sucking and Be Awesome Instead](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/f23c13e90697/) (blog.codinghorror.com, June 3, 2012) - [Coding Horror: A Visual Explanation of SQL Joins](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/b5590466fe8f/) (blog.codinghorror.com, May 29, 2013) - [Getting the Most Out of PNG](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/14cb697f8852/) (blog.codinghorror.com, December 18, 2015) ## Saved the same week - [A2 Web Hosting : : PHP 5.2.x Hosting, MySQL 5.0.x/4.1.x Hosting, Postgres/PostgreSQL 8.2.x Hosting, Ruby on Rails, Linux cPanel Hosting](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/5444583596cc/) (a2hosting.com, September 26, 2007) - [Moving On](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/761262b95386/) (online.wsj.com, September 27, 2007) - [Architosh: News > Will AppleTV Pay Off in Era of New Net Media: Prominent VC says AppleTV Experience Amazing](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/8e7dcb6c513b/) (architosh.com, September 27, 2007) - [FLEX - US punk & hardcore discography](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/4ef9b2d770f3/) (fuzzlogic.com, September 29, 2007) - [BBC - Science & Nature - Human Body and Mind - Sleep Profiler](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/162499df64d8/) (bbc.co.uk, September 29, 2007) ## Elsewhere - Wayback Machine: https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://blog.codinghorror.com/can-your-team-pass-the-elevator-test