Decision-making for Software Development Teams
Decision-making for Software Development Teams
Learn how to make mindful decisions in complex software ecosystems
About the Book
Decision-making is a vital skill for every senior software developer. Some of these decisions are easy to spot. For example, choosing a language or a framework for a new shiny greenfield project. Other ones are hidden in plain sight.
Alas, decision-making is often an undervalued skill that most developers do not study or train.
This book aims to introduce developers to some theoretical concepts about decisions and to put them in practice with exercises explained with real-life examples.
Table of Contents
Section 1: Introduction
- Introduction: Decisions Decisions
- Decision-making Antipatterns
- A Decision-making meeting: a use case
Section 2: Elements To Decide
- Knowing the Business Needs
- Why should developers care about UX design?
- Knowing the Context
- Non-functional Requirements
- People
- Process
Section 3: Define your process
- Real World Decisions: take your pick
About the Author
About the Contributors
Table of Contents
- Preface: Why a book on decision-making
- Section 1: Introduction
-
Chapter 1: Decisions Decisions
- 1.1 Let’s talk about decisions
- 1.2 Is it complex or complicated?
- 1.3 Cynefin Framework
- 1.4 The Role of Company Culture
- 1.5 Other definitions of Complex/Complicated
- Summary
-
Chapter 2: Decision-making Antipatterns
- 2.1 Hype-Driven Development
- 2.2 The Usual Path
- 2.3 The Expert
- 2.4 Rage-Driven Decisions
- Summary
-
Chapter 3: A Decision-making meeting: a use case
- 3.1 Preparatory Calls
- 3.2 Check-in
- 3.3 Knowing the Team
- 3.4 Knowing the product and the users
- 3.5 Defining Quality
- 3.6 My Comments
- Summary
- Section 2: Elements To Decide
-
Chapter 4: Knowing the Business Needs
- 4.1 Know The Reason Why
- 4.2 Business Model Canvas
- 4.3 Value Proposition Canvas
- 4.4 Elevator Pitch
- Summary
-
Chapter 5: Why should developers care about UX design?
- 5.1 The UX data journey
- 5.2 In which ways can UX design inform the development process?
- 5.3 UX designers and developers collaboration
- Summary
-
Chapter 6: Knowing the Context
- 6.1 Knowing the “Age”
- 6.2 Knowing the Team
- 6.3 Express Constraints
- Summary
- Notes
About the Publisher
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