Beautiful Teams: Inspiring And Cautionary Tales From Veteran Team Leaders

Description

What's it like to work on a great software development team facing an impossible problem? How do you build an effective team? Can a group of people who don't get along still build good software? How does a team leader keep everyone on track when the stakes are high and the schedule is tight?

Beautiful Teams takes you behind the scenes with some of the most interesting teams in software engineering history. You'll learn from veteran team leaders' successes and failures, told through a series of engaging personal stories -- and interviews -- by leading programmers, architects, project managers, and thought leaders.

 This book includes contributions from:

* Tim O'Reilly
* Scott Berkun
* Mark Healey
* Bill DiPierre
* Andy Lester
* Keoki Andrus
* Tom Tarka
* Auke Jilderda
* Grady Booch
* Jennifer Greene
* Mike Cohn
* Cory Doctorow
* Neil Siegel
* Trevor Field
* James Grenning
* Steve McConnell
* Barry Boehm and Maria H. Penedo
* Peter Gluck
* Karl E. Wiegers
* Alex Martelli
* Karl Fogel
* Michael Collins
* Karl Rehmer
* Andrew Stellman
* Ned Robinson
* Scott Ambler
* Johanna Rothman
* Mark Denovich and Eric Renkey
* Patricia Ensworth
* Andy Oram
* Tony Visconti

 Beautiful Teams is edited by Andrew Stellman and Jennifer Greene, veteran software engineers and project managers who have been writing bestselling books for O'Reilly since 2005, including Applied Software Project Management, Head First PMP, and Head First C#.

CONTENTS:

DedicationWhy Beautiful Teams?PrefaceChapter 1: LeadershipPart I: People
* Chapter 2: Why Ugly Teams Win
* Chapter 3: Building Video Games
* Chapter 4: Building the Perfect Team
* Chapter 5: What Makes Developers Tick
* Chapter 6: Inspiring People
* Chapter 7: Bringing the Music Industry into the 21st Century: One Lawsuit at a Time
* Chapter 8: Inner SourcePart II: GoalsPart III: Practices
* Chapter 15: Building a Team with Collaboration and Learning
* Chapter 16: Better Practices
* Chapter 17: Memories of TRW's Software Productivity Project: A Beautiful Team, Challenged to Change the CultureEditors' note: if you've worked on a software team in the past 20 years, you have been influenced by Barry Boehm. He was one of the first people to take a systematic approach to estimating and planning software projects. And many people (including us) believe that his pioneering Spiral Model is the direct predecessor to the modern idea of iterative development.
* Chapter 18: Building Spaceships
* Chapter 19: Succeeding with Requirements: A Drama in Three Acts
* Chapter 20: Development at Google
* Chapter 21: Teams and Tools
* Chapter 22: Research Teams
* Chapter 23: The HADS TeamPart IV: Obstacles
* Chapter 24: Bad Boss
* Chapter 25: Welcome to the Process: Step Inside, Step Inside, and See the Show
* Chapter 26: Getting Past Obstacles
* Chapter 27: Speed Versus Quality: Why Do We Need to Choose?
* Chapter 28: Tight, Isn't It?
* Chapter 29: Inside and Outside the Box
* Chapter 30: Compiling the Voice of a TeamPart V: MusicColophon