Tuesday, March 9, 2010

Jedi vs Samuri: The Age Old Battle for best IT Team Name.

There we were, in a team meeting and debating on our new Team name. After months of re-organization of out IT Team make-up and structure, on our 4th new Team Leader it had all come down to this...the name that would define us for the next 1-2 years. The name that would unite and join us...after days spend dwelling on the choices it had come down to 2 names.

Team Jedi or Team Samurai...

Both represent many of the same core values that we wanted to convey in our branding of our team with a new Team name.

Something that represented honesty, integrity, fearlessness, honor, and a state of perfection.

The final debate was on and the conversation ebbed and flowed to the final definitive winner.

The conversation unfolds:

Samurai were part of feudal Japan and thats not a good thing in many ways...
Jedi were part of a Universal collaborative of "Saint like" warriors...
Samurai were part of an ancient culture still respected and held in high regard to this very day...
O.K. if a Jedi and and Samurai battle who would win...
The Jedi of course...with his Light Sabre is would slice the Samurai's Katana like butter...
Humm....your right....
Humm....wait a minute! Samurai were real and Jedi's are not.
Crap...your right...

So, introducing our new team to our new name...

TEAM JEDI !

Leave it to a group of developers and they will always come to agreement on something that just doesnt make sense...but its fun and intellectual non-the-less.

So this is where my name and thus my blog name came from...

Qui-Jon

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