management:team

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You are not a team because you work together. You are a team because you trust, respect and care for each other.
Vala Afshar

Workload Splitting

Two strategies for splitting the workload within teams:

Specific roles to each team members
Each team members try a different approach to address the problem, i.e. build multiple end-to-end solutions, with each team member using a different strategy, and later zooming into most promising of their different approaches.

Team Management

I don't mean the software would manage people. I mean more that management would take the form of feature requests.
Paul Graham

SurgicalTeam: An approach to software development that mirrors the process used to conduct surgery. Discussed in Fred Brooks' MythicalManMonth.
If every software manager read this book (Mythical Man Month), we would, within two years, double the number of software projects that delivered production code.

ICT Team

The Joel Test: 12 Steps to Better Code

Documentation / Reference

How we structure our work and teams at Basecamp. An inside look at the specifics of how we decide what to do and then decide how to do it.
“Stochastic Performance Analysis of Global Software Development Teams,” in ACM TOSEM:

Engineers Shouldn’t Write ETL: A Guide to Building a High Functioning Data Science Department

http://multithreaded.stitchfix.com/blog/2016/03/16/engineers-shouldnt-write-etl/

If they are not bored, chances are they are pretty mediocre