Git Archaeology #6 — Teams Evolve: The Laws of Organization Revealed by Timelines

When individuals change, teams change. Team timelines reveal that these changes follow laws. Previously In Chapter 5 , I used eis timeline to trace individual timelines — Engineer F's departure and machuz's rise, Engineer I's "hesitation" and return. But those were individual stories. A team is a collection of individuals. When individuals change, the team's nature changes too. eis timeline also auto-generates team-level aggregations. This chapter reads those team timelines, then extracts the laws of engineer evolution visible in the data. Team Timeline: What It Shows The team timeline classifies the entire team for each period: Character — Team personality (Elite, Guardian, Factory, Balanced, Explorer, Firefighting) Structure — Organization (Architectural Engine, Delivery Team, Maintenance Team, Unstructured) Culture — Culture (Builder, Stability, Exploration, Firefighting) Phase — Phase (Mature, Emerging, Declining) Risk — Risk (Healthy, Design Vacuum, Quality Drift) Plus Health metr