Patterns of Effective Teams

Decisions, Decisions – Dan North

• Spike and Stabilize
• Short Software Half-Life
• Ginger Cake, DRY vs decoupled, copy-pasting code
• Automate something when it is boring
• Dancing Skeleton

Software, Faster – Dan North

• Spike and Stabilize
• Hair Trigger
• Ginger Cake
• Shallow Silos
• Burn the Ships

Patterns of Effective Teams – Dan North

Productive ≠ effective

• Dreyfus Squared - pairing people up
  • Novice + expert = someone dies
  • Advanced beginner + advanced beginner = mayhem
  • Novice + competent = really good
  • Proficient + expert = powerful
• Shallow Silos
• Near and Far
• Warm Welcome, Fond Farewell
• Seize the Day
• Code Critique
• Hack Day