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Software Design X-Rays
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Software Design X-Rays

by Adam Tornhill
March 2018
Intermediate to advanced
276 pages
7h 11m
English
Pragmatic Bookshelf
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Analyze Operational Team Boundaries

In many situations the coordination unit of interest isn’t that of individual developers but rather of teams. This is the case in larger organizations or when using collaborative development techniques like pair programming. Since version-control data doesn’t know anything about teams, we need to augment the raw behavioral data with organizational information. This is a matter of scripting a replacement of author names with the names of their teams, as the following figure illustrates.

images/conway/team-algorithm.png

The Git log output in the preceding figure is fetched with the same options, git shortlog -s, that we used in Parallel Development ...

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