On 9/2/2011 3:12 PM, Nathan Strutz wrote: > So my question to the list is this: How do you organize your teams of > developers successfully? Please let me know what you do, or what you have > seen that actually works.
Sounds like you guys could use some sort of internal social media thing to stay in tune with each other. You didn't say what the actual locations were so it is hard to say. If they are completely separate locations, it would be different than all in one building. I curious as to how the cross project fertilization works small groups. In general, you have to own your project (or at least your part of it) to do your best work. Having someone back you up is an expense that most companies won't want to sustain. It is only a backup plan which is rarely needed. I would say that more important is to get the bigger picture stuff sorted out like general guidelines, source control, testing, documentation, etc. sorted out across the team. If someone leaves, those remaining would know where to look for things. You also might want to build a library of primitive functions for the group. That way, people are using the same building blocks if that is possible. There are other ways to keep in touch, but most developers that I have met were very busy so the communication is tough. The "hit by the bus" thing was mentioned to me at an annual review. I just asked if they could afford another developer. It was never mentioned again. -- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/pub/8/a4/60 Twitter: http://twitter.com/RogerTheGeek Google+: https://plus.google.com/117357905892731200369 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:347196 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
