Beautiful Teams by Greene, Jennifer -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Beautiful Teams Dedication Why Beautiful Teams?

Why These Contributors?

Preface

How This Book Is Organized

Part I, People Part II, Goals Part III, Practices Part IV, Obstacles Part V, Music

How to Contact Us Safari® Books Online Acknowledgments About the Editors

1. Leadership I. People

2. Why Ugly Teams Win

Ugly Talent Ugly As Beautiful My Wabi-Sabi Team: Internet Explorer 4.0

3. Building Video Games 4. Building the Perfect Team 5. What Makes Developers Tick 6. Inspiring People 7. Bringing the Music Industry into the 21st Century: One Lawsuit at a Time

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

8. Inner Source

II. Goals

9. Creating Team Cultures 10. Putting the "I" in Failure 11. Planning 12. The Copyfighters Take Mordor 13. Defending the Free World 14. Saving Lives

III. Practices

15. Building a Team with Collaboration and Learning

Selling Management Getting Started Growing the Team Pressing the Envelope and the Process Police Learning Requirements Versus On-Site Customer Trouble in River City

Teams Are Made of People, Not Resources

Companies Make Their Own Troubles Future Projects Collaboration Success Factors References

16. Better Practices 17. Memories of TRW's Software Productivity Project: A Beautiful Team, Challenged to Change the Culture

Background on the Software Productivity Project Making the Project a Reality

Getting Started: Being Ready with Options When Management Calls Evaluating and Selecting Options: Applying the Spiral Model Getting Started: A Balanced Team, a Committed Pilot Project, and the Niceties of Unix

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

18. Building Spaceships 19. Succeeding with Requirements: A Drama in Three Acts

The Setting The Cast Prologue: Paul Is in a Pickle Act I: Girding Our Loins

Expectation Management Classy Users Who Ya Gonna Call?

Act II: Use Cases, Schmuse Cases

The Case for Use Cases Working in the Shop Use Cases Aren't Enough Beyond Functionality The Rules of the Game Test Before Coding? Are You Mad?

Act III: Look Over My Shoulder

The Casual Style The Formal Style The Outcome

Epilogue: Let's Eat! Coda: Then What Happened? Useful References Acknowledgments

20. Development at Google 21. Teams and Tools

How Open Source Projects Work The Contribulyzer

The Catch The Limits of the Contribulyzer

Commit Emails and Gumption Sinks They're Staying Away in Droves: A Tale of Two Translation Interfaces

What I Gave Them What I Should Have Given Them

Conclusion

22. Research Teams 23. The HADS Team

The Background The Initial Team Getting It Right Dealing with User Issues Epilogue

IV. Obstacles

24. Bad Boss 25. Welcome to the Process: Step Inside, Step Inside, and See the Show 26. Getting Past Obstacles 27. Speed Versus Quality: Why Do We Need to Choose?

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

28. Tight, Isn't It?

Only Pawn…in Game of Life, or "What's a Dazzling Urbanite Like You Doing in a Rustic Setting Like This?" 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 Come to Act and Act Quickly" 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 Earth?" Epilogue, or "Nowhere Special…I Always Wanted to Go There"

29. Inside and Outside the Box 30. Compiling the Voice of a Team

A Gem from the Computing Past Rewiring Coping Coding Capitulating The Break Anticipating 21st-Century Management Final Notes

V. Music

31. Producing Music A. Contributors

Index About the Authors Colophon Copyright

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