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Toward
a Whole(er) team
by Matt Ganis
Presented at the Nov.
13th meeting of APLN-NYC
the
powerpoint or pdf
version
In this presentation (which is part of
my Doctoral Dissertation at Pace
University's Siedenberg School of Computer Science) I present
the results of various retrospectives and team evaluations taken
over a 3 year period to access the value of the "Whole
team" practice in Agile methods.
There are various practices that surround
Agile methods such as pair programming, coding standards, planning
games, etc. One that seems to implied (I rarely see it mentioned
as one of the key practices) is that of the whole team - the
concept that everyone that is required for a successful launch
of a project should be part of the Agile team.
In this work, I evaluated the various
team configurations we've gone through at ibm.com (an organization
within the Sales & Distribution division of IBM)
in an attempt to understand the ramifcation of not implementing
a whole team. While the results are preliminary, it appears
there is a marked increase in customer satisfaction as well
as team satisfaction when the use of "whole team"
is employed.
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