Been reading a good book "Psychology of Computer Programming" which discusses programming as a team activity rather than as a group of isolated acts of individuals. This book is awesome considering that this book was written back in 1971 and the points made are relevant even today. Just shows how little we care to learn even about known problems.

An interesting quote :) -

". . . the lack of software skill was never the problem. Lack of managerial skill was always the problem; lack of software skill was merely a convenient excuse for those managers who lacked esteem"

Oh well, I would say some companies lack both :-p