- Beautiful Teams
- Why Beautiful Teams?
- Preface
- 1. Leadership
- I. People
- 2. Why Ugly Teams Win
- 3. Building Video Games
- 4. Building the Perfect Team
- 5. What Makes Developers Tick
- 6. Inspiring People
- 7. Bringing the Music Industry into the 21st Century: One Lawsuit at a Time
- A New Project, A New Team
- A Calculated Risk …
- Gentlemen, Start Your Rippers…
- The Final Month
- I Am So Smart: S-M-R-T … S-M-A-R-T
- Engineering Department Smokes a Collective Cigarette
- Intermission: The Founding of a Panda Preserve
- "You Realists Can Stay the Hell Out of Our Office!"
- Not with a Bang, But with a Whimper …
- Epilogue
- Afterword
- 8. Inner Source
- II. Goals
- III. Practices
- 15. Building a Team with Collaboration and Learning
- 16. Better Practices
- 17. Memories of TRW's Software Productivity Project: A Beautiful Team, Challenged to Change the Culture
- Background on the Software Productivity Project
- Making the Project a Reality
- Project Stories
- The Team
- The Challenge
- Educating the Boss
- Can We Have a Private Office?
- Choice in Technologies: The Importance of Trade Studies
- Converting the "Guinea Pig" Project
- Standardization
- Users Should Be Part of the Team
- Making All Inclusive
- Training Managers, Not Your Usual Student
- Tasting Our Own Cooking
- Is Email a Boost or a Hindrance?
- Becoming Word Processors
- The Difficulties of Innovation, Timing, and Commercialization
- The Iron Law of Software Maintenance
- Champions
- The Challenges of the Rapid Change of Technology
- Learning and Assimilating Changes in User Behavior
- Conclusion
- References
- Acknowledgments
- 18. Building Spaceships
- 19. Succeeding with Requirements: A Drama in Three Acts
- 20. Development at Google
- 21. Teams and Tools
- 22. Research Teams
- 23. The HADS Team
- IV. Obstacles
- 24. Bad Boss
- 25. Welcome to the Process: Step Inside, Step Inside, and See the Show
- 26. Getting Past Obstacles
- 27. Speed Versus Quality: Why Do We Need to Choose?
- How Did We Get Here?
- About the Team
- Becoming Part of the Team
- Starting Off Right
- Solving Problems As a Team
- What Code Review Looked Like
- Unit Tests
- Check-ins
- Builds
- Schedules
- Status Reports
- Go Faster Now!
- Looking for More Speed
- Losing a Week at a Time
- What to Do Next
- Retaining Integrity
- The Rubber Meets the Road
- Success at Last
- Epilogue
- References
- 28. Tight, Isn't It?
- Only Pawn…in Game of Life, or "What's a Dazzling Urbanite Like You Doing in a Rustic Setting Like This?"
- CMM Level Subzero, or "Processes, We Don't Need No Stinking Processes!"
- The Brown Hole, or "I'd Say You've Had Enough"
- Some of These Envelopes Contain Stock Options, or "I'm Through Being Mr. Goodbar, the Time Has Come to Act and Act Quickly"
- The Blitz, or "Break's Over, Boys, Don't Just Lie There Gettin' a Suntan…"
- Our Invite to the Number Six Dance, or "What Is It That's Not Exactly Water and It Ain't Exactly Earth?"
- Epilogue, or "Nowhere Special…I Always Wanted to Go There"
- 29. Inside and Outside the Box
- 30. Compiling the Voice of a Team
- V. Music
- Colophon
Our thanks to the contributors and reviewers of this chapter, including Christine Shu, Frank Belz, Art Pyster, and others who participated and made this a beautiful team. We would also like to dedicate the chapter to the memory of Don Stuckle, the productivity project manager and a truly beautiful person.
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