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Beautiful Teams
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Beautiful Teams

by Andrew Stellman, Jennifer Greene
March 2009
Beginner content levelBeginner
512 pages
18h 28m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Success at Last

The team agreed to the phased release. They kept up with the code reviews, unit tests, and multiple check-ins. I maintained the projectwide inch-pebbles. As other team members finished their features, they worked with Fred and Tim on the performance issues. We got lucky. At the desired date, we actually had everything done: the features and the performance changes.

The next day, we had a little celebration with ice cream sundaes and we discussed what we'd learned.

Sam started. "Johanna, I had no idea that breaking tasks into small chunks would really help that much. But I'm even more impressed with the code reviews and the unit tests. I could never have done all this without them."

Fred added, "I wish I'd asked for review earlier. We wouldn't have needed that overtime."

Tim said, "Maybe now you'll believe me. Now all I have to do is to get you to start eating organic food." Everyone laughed.

I added, "I'm really impressed with what each of you accomplished, separately and together. Thanks for the opportunity to work with you."

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