> What is it about more homogeneously skilled teams
They are a strawman example that doesn't exist in the real world.
Companies will be in big trouble in a few years when the team retires, people find new jobs, someone dies... All of them mean that a homogeneously skilled team will exist for at most a few years if you have one. As a company you need to ensure you have a program to train in new people.
I have long believed that when someone retires you should replace them with someone fresh out of school, promoting people all the way down to fill the opening. If someone finds a new job you can replace them with someone else with similar experience, but when someone retires they should be replaced by someone you already have groomed for the job.
They are a strawman example that doesn't exist in the real world.
Companies will be in big trouble in a few years when the team retires, people find new jobs, someone dies... All of them mean that a homogeneously skilled team will exist for at most a few years if you have one. As a company you need to ensure you have a program to train in new people.
I have long believed that when someone retires you should replace them with someone fresh out of school, promoting people all the way down to fill the opening. If someone finds a new job you can replace them with someone else with similar experience, but when someone retires they should be replaced by someone you already have groomed for the job.