Project Management with the IBM® Rational Unified Process®: Lessons from the Trenches

Chapter 5. Best Practices for Staffing the Contractor’s Software Project Team

Software development has been and will continue to be very dependent on the caliber of the individuals involved. The reason, of course, is that software development is an intellectual exercise. More importantly, teams produce successful software development projects. The trends of outsourcing and offshoring extend this concept further by introducing groups of teams that must work well together (hence, the reason for a separate chapter covering the outsourcing organization’s team). In his book Object Solutions: Managing the Object-Oriented Project, Grady Booch, one of the creators of the RUP, states, “It is time that I come clean and unveil one of the dirty little secrets ...