March 2009
Beginner
512 pages
18h 28m
English
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Why Beautiful Teams?
WE'VE BEEN ON A LOT OF DIFFERENT TEAMS OVER THE YEARS, IN A LOT OF DIFFERENT COMPANIES AND building a lot of different kinds of projects. And over the course of writing books, articles, and blog posts about how to make projects run better, we were always nagged by a question. It always seemed like it was our job to come up with prescriptive "best" ways to run software projects: how to plan the projects, how to build the software, and how to make sure that it doesn't break. But the more we wrote and the more we talked to people, the more we questioned this idea.
We started down that path after writing our first book, which we thought of as a practical recipe book for running successful software projects. We'd done a lot of research, experimentation, and real-world project work over the years to find practices that worked for us: ways to plan software projects, techniques for developers to write better code, and ways to test the software. We took the ones that worked best for us and packaged them up into as lightweight a book as we could come up with. We've gotten a lot of great, overwhelmingly positive feedback about it over the years, and a lot of people have told us that they use it every day.
And that's where things started to go wrong for us.
Ironically, we fell into a trap that we actually wrote about in that book: we started to get a kind of tunnel vision. We saw this particular set of practices as the "successful" practices. We never intended to say that ...
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