The Practical Guide to Defect Prevention

Using Size as an Advantage

Size is not always a disadvantage but is often treated as one. One advantage of a large-scale project is that there are a lot of people with different experiences and expertise working on it together.

You can create a better system to reduce the communication problems that scale creates by innovating systems that support communicating information to appropriate subgroups and gathering information from large groups. Pay attention to the following aspects when creating effective communication systems:

• Knowledge transfer You can form better connections between experts and novices to transfer knowledge. This also provides a learning mechanism for novices to pick up new skills and can be an adjunct to formal mentoring. ...