Businesses reasserting outdated development principles are undoing not only the promised product benefits of Agile, but also its human-centric principles. It’s time to recommit.
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Businesses reasserting outdated development principles are undoing not only the promised product benefits of Agile, but also its human-centric principles. It’s time to recommit.
âThe Surgical Teamâ in XXI Century
Updated concept of The Surgical Team
The article describes The Surgical Team introduced in The Mythical Man-Month . Here we look at: a breakdown of The Modern âSurgical Teamâ, meritocracy, how scaling the solution up requires repeating the hierarchy pattern multiple times, why stable teams matter, why small teams matter, and scalability limit.
Disclaimer
This article is my personal opinion about how the software development shall be organized. This is not intended to be a scientific paper, so many statements are intentionally bold and direct to make the text short. I did my best to present the approach based on my own observations and available sources, but I am not a business theoretician, professional manager nor sociologist, and I may be totally wrong. Moreover, this article is unavoidably written from developer/architect perspective, and Iâm open to other perspectives as well. I also havenât had opportunit