Xanpan appendix - Management and team
Xanpan appendix - Management and team
Team Centric Agile Software Development
About the Book
Easays on:
- Management heuristics
- Team heuristics
- Nature of the team
- Constaining laws for teams
- Team composition
- Bug management strategies
About the Author
Bundles that include this book
Table of Contents
- Requiem for an unfinished book
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1. Management Heuristics
- 1.1 Management focus on teams
- 1.2 Managers or management?
- 1.3 Management is not strategy
- 1.4 1000 decisions a day
- 1.5 Why management heuristics?
- 1.6 Why Xanpan?
- 1.7 Finally: Heuristics and philosophy
- 1.8 References
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2. Teams Heuristics
- 2.1 Teams over projects
- 2.2 Clear benefits and purpose
- 2.3 Stability
- 2.4 Area of speciality
- 2.5 Area of responsibility
- 2.6 Strategic sizing
- 2.7 Conclusion
- 2.8 References
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3. Nature of the team
- 3.1 Work flows to the team
- 3.2 Vertical teams
- 3.3 Only software?
- 3.4 Deciding what to work on
- 3.5 Value seeking teams
- 3.6 Discovery and delivery
- 3.7 Defining value, and benefit
- 3.8 References
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4. Constraining Laws for Teams
- 4.1 Brook’s Law
- 4.2 Conway’s Law
- 4.3 Dunbar’s number: Natural breakpoints
- 4.4 Miller’s Magic seven
- 4.5 Parkinson’s Law and Hofstadter’s Law
- 4.6 Gall’s Law - plus Parnas and Alexander
- 4.7 Kelly’s Laws
- 4.8 Conclusion
- 4.9 References
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5. Team composition
- 5.1 Who is on the team?
- 5.2 Developers are not the only fruit
- 5.3 Ratios
- 5.4 Tester to programmers
- 5.5 Solo programmers
- 5.6 Programmers
- 5.7 Pair testing? Pair analysis?
- 5.8 Finally
- 5.9 References
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6. Bug management strategies
- 6.1 Characteristics of bugs
- 6.2 Strategy #1: Prevent at source
- 6.3 Strategy #2: Fix close to origin
- 6.4 Strategy #3: Quick decision, quick fix
- 6.5 Strategy #4: Active bug management
- 6.6 Strategy #5: Bug fixing sub-team
- 6.7 Strategy #6: Fix within team
- 6.8 To estimate or not to estimate?
- 6.9 Choosing between strategies
- 6.10 Other strategies
- 6.11 Why not?
- 6.12 Finally
- 6.13 References
- Version History
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