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Rapid Development: Taming Wild Software Schedules
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Rapid Development: Taming Wild Software Schedules

by Steve McConnell
July 1996
Intermediate to advanced
680 pages
19h 53m
English
Microsoft Press
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Chapter 12. Teamwork

Contents

12.1 Software Uses of Teamwork

12.2 Teamwork's Importance to Rapid Development

12.3 Creating a High-Performance Team

12.4 Why Teams Fail

12.5 Long-Term Teambuilding

12.6 Summary of Teamwork Guidelines

Related Topics

Team structure: Chapter 13

Peopleware: Four Dimensions of Development Speed

Motivation: Chapter 11

Signing up: Chapter 34

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