at the end of 1995 Matt was thrust into the leadership position of a new team that was going to work on a project code-named "Maryland" As the team's leader (which wasn't considered a "management" job),hoped to assume a leadership role but still have some involvement with writing code. it wasn't long, though, before he encountered his first management challenge. one team member, sanjaya choudhury, strongly disagreed with him about what features should be included in the computer network design the team was working on. Team meetings often deteriorated into loud and heated arguments between the two