When You Realize that your development Geniuses are really Asses

So you have a development team. Yes. They are smart. But perhaps not as smart as you think. Regardless they swagger and talk. Controlling your projects and plotting down a path of doom.

But what are the signs that they have gone too far.

Could it be when:

1. They complain of out of town managers (you know, the  ones from head office) arriving and appearing at meetings and asking questions when they don't know anything about how your destroying the projects?
2. They claim they can rely only on unit tests?
3. Perhaps its when they think they can stovepipe code straight to production without a system level test in a staging environment?

If its any of these it probably already too late for you. Controlling their incompetent urges now that the arrogance is out of the bag will just mean they will leave to go destroy another project.

Or perhaps that would not be so bad after all.