To be a great development team, your team needs to devote time to continuous learning.  A team that doesn't regularly encourage its members to take time to learn new skills and keep up with emerging technologies is bound to fall behind in their skill sets and will often not identify the best solution for a given problem.  I've worked with teams that encouraged continuous learning and teams that left no time for it and I can tell you with certainty that the teams that encourage continuous learning are the best development teams.
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