Re: [xpe2e] Second practice: Whole Team

On Mon, 18 Oct 2004 09:55:49 -0700, Kent Beck 
<kentb-ihVZJaRskl1bRRN4PJnoQQ@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> Some organizations try to have teams with fractional people: "You'll
> spend 40% of your time working for these customers and 60% work for
> those customers." In this case, so much time is wasted on task-switching
> that you can see immediate improvement by grouping the programmers into
> teams. The team responds to the customers' needs. This frees the
> programmers from fractured thinking. The customer receives the benefit
> of the expertise of the whole team as needed. People need acceptance and
> belonging. Identifying with this program on Mondays and Thursdays and
> that program on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, without having other
> programmers to identify with, destroys the sense of "team" and is
> counterproductive.
> 


I thought you might be interested in the alternative rationale we use
for the same conclusion. In sound bit form, I say "a 60% resource
contributes only 40%, but requires 100% coordination effort" (that is,
they count as a full person towards the 12-people boundary you
describe).


~Johannes


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