Thursday, December 20, 2007

Social patterns in productive software development organizations

This research paper came to my attention recently. It covers the dynamics of roles and the organization of work within software development teams. Some very interesting observations were made. For people in the software development trade most of them seem obvious, but it is nice to have some scientific backing. Now the only problem is to convince your manager to go away and let you do your job ;)

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