December 2008
Intermediate to advanced
368 pages
8h 23m
English
One man alone can be pretty dumb sometimes, but for real bona fide stupidity, there ain’t nothin’ can beat teamwork.
—Edward Abbey
Chapter
• Try...Self-Organizing Teams 194
• Try...Set Challenging But Realistic Goals 195
• Try...Cross-Functional Teams 196
• Try...Team Owns the Process 200
• Try...Team Manages External Dependencies 202
• Try...Dedicated Team Members 204
• Try...Multi-Skilled Workers 204
• Try...Team Makes Decisions 207
• Try...Open Team Conflict 208
• Avoid...Phase-based “resource allocation” 209
• Avoid...Parallel releases (a symptom of imbalanced groups and work) 209
• Avoid...Staircase branching (a symptom of imbalanced groups and work) 210