Why cheap developers will cost you???!
by admin on Jul.01, 2009, under News
I’m going to take a break from the normal techno-speak ASP.NET and SharePoint for a minute because I was recently reading something that really struck a chord with me as I’ve been experiencing a lot of it lately. I was reading this article on The Daily WTF today, mainly because I had just submitted an item for their Code Snippet of the Date (CodeSOD) section. For those of you who don’t know The Daily WTF and CodeSOD contain articles about real issues developers and IT professionals encounter on a daily basis. I was reading this article on “Spaced Out” and I came across a comment by someone named Captain Kirk
What is the optimal size of a team?
by admin on Jun.25, 2009, under Other
People have been trying to answer this question for ages, and there seems to be little consensus. At the SPA 2009 conference this week I attended a very inspiring session by Joseph Pelrine, who told his audience that the sizes 5, 15 and 150 have been mentioned in (or can be derived from) scientific research, as being optimal sizes for social groups.
The agile movement, with Scrum as the leading method at this time, often mentions a preferred team size of 7 plus or minus 2 (which is just a software developer’s way of saying between 5 and 9).
And recently I read about the results of interesting new research into optimal group size for decision making, which revealed that anything below 20 can work well, except 8. That’s because eight people frequently find themselves in a deadlock situation on their decisions.
