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Beautiful Teams
Inspiring and Cautionary Tales from Veteran Team Leaders
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- Praise for Beautiful Teams
- Contents
- + Why Beautiful Teams?
- + Preface
- Leadership
- Part One
- + Why Ugly Teams Win
- Building Video Games
- Building the Perfect Team
- What Makes Developers Tick
- Inspiring People
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Bringing the Music Industry into the 21st Century
- A New Project, A New Team
- A Calculated Risk...
- Gentlemen, Start Your Rippers…
- The Final Month
- I Am So Smart: S-M-R-T...S-M-A-R-T
- Engineering Department Smokes a Collective Cigarette
- Intermission: The Founding of a Panda Preserve
- “You Realists Can Stay the Hell Out of Our Office!”
- Not with a Bang, But with a Whimper...
- Epilogue
- Afterword
- Inner Source
- Part Two
- Creating Team Cultures
- Putting the “I” in Failure
- Planning
- The Copyfighters Take Mordor
- Defending the Free World
- Saving Lives
- Part Three
- + Building a Team with Collaboration and Learning
- Better Practices
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Memories of TRW’s Software Productivity Project
- Background on the Software Productivity Project
- + Making the Project a Reality
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Project Stories
- The Team
- The Challenge
- Educating the Boss
- Can We Have a Private Office?
- Choice in Technologies: The Importance of Trade Studies
- Converting the “Guinea Pig” Project
- Standardization
- Users Should Be Part of the Team
- Making All Inclusive
- Training Managers, Not Your Usual Student
- Tasting Our Own Cooking
- Is Email a Boost or a Hindrance?
- Becoming Word Processors
- The Difficulties of Innovation, Timing, and Commercialization
- The Iron Law of Software Maintenance
- Champions
- The Challenges of the Rapid Change of Technology
- Learning and Assimilating Changes in User Behavior
- Conclusion
- References
- Acknowledgments
- Building Spaceships
- + Succeeding with Requirements
- Development at Google
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Teams and Tools
- Research Teams
- + The HADS Team
- Part Four
- Bad Boss
- Welcome to the Process
- Getting Past Obstacles
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Speed Versus Quality
- How Did We Get Here?
- About the Team
- Becoming Part of the Team
- Starting Off Right
- Solving Problems As a Team
- What Code Review Looked Like
- Unit Tests
- Check-ins
- Builds
- Schedules
- Status Reports
- Go Faster Now!
- Looking for More Speed
- Losing a Week at a Time
- What to Do Next
- Retaining Integrity
- The Rubber Meets the Road
- Success at Last
- Epilogue
- References
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Tight, Isn’t It?
- Only Pawn...in Game of Life, or “What’s a Dazzling Urbanite Like You Doing in a Rustic Settin...
- CMM Level Subzero, or “Processes, We Don’t Need No Stinking Processes!”
- The Brown Hole, or “I’d Say You’ve Had Enough”
- Some of These Envelopes Contain Stock Options, or “I’m Through Being Mr. Goodbar, the Time Has Co...
- The Blitz, or “Break’s Over, Boys, Don’t Just Lie There Gettin’ a Suntan...”
- Our Invite to the Number Six Dance, or “What Is It That’s Not Exactly Water and It Ain’t Exactly ...
- Epilogue, or “Nowhere Special...I Always Wanted to Go There”
- Inside and Outside the Box
- + Compiling the Voice of a Team
- Part Five
- Producing Music
- Contributors
- Index
What's it like to work on a great software development team facing an impossible problem? How do you build an effective team? Can a group of people who don't get along still build good software? How does a team leader keep everyone on track when the stakes are high and the schedule is tight?
Beautiful Teams takes you behind the scenes with some of the most interesting teams in software engineering history. You'll learn from veteran team leaders' successes and failures, told through a series of engaging personal stories -- and interviews -- by leading programmers, architects, project managers, and thought leaders.
This book includes contributions from:
Tim O'Reilly
Scott Berkun
Mark Healey
Bill DiPierre
Andy Lester
Keoki Andrus
Tom Tarka
Auke Jilderda
Grady Booch
Jennifer Greene
Mike Cohn
Cory Doctorow
Neil Siegel
Trevor Field
James Grenning
Steve McConnell
Barry Boehm and Maria H. Penedo
Peter Gluck
Karl E. Wiegers
Alex Martelli
Karl Fogel
Michael Collins
Karl Rehmer
Andrew Stellman
Ned Robinson
Scott Ambler
Johanna Rothman
Mark Denovich and Eric Renkey
Patricia Ensworth
Andy Oram
Tony Visconti
Beautiful Teams is edited by Andrew Stellman and Jennifer Greene, veteran software engineers and project managers who have been writing bestselling books for O'Reilly since 2005, including Applied Software Project Management, Head First PMP, and Head First C#.
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Book Details
Authors
Andrew Stellman and Jennifer Greene
Categories
Computers > Information Technology
Publishers
Publication year : 2009
License: All rights reserved ©
Times read: 185
