RE: [xpe2e] Second practice: Whole Team

My intention with the practice is to encourage readers to align the
interests of everyone who strongly affects the team. If you need
infrequent support from a DBA but that support is critical when it is
needed, the team is better off with a DBA on the team who spends most of
his time on other tasks. Over time, through pairing, your reliance on
that one person should diminish. If the team gets unpredictable support
from a DBA who isn't part of the team, the whole team's effectiveness
will be diminished. Finding a way to more closely align the DBA's
interests with the team's will result in improved effectiveness.

Kent Beck
Three Rivers Institute

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Russell Gold [mailto:russgold-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] 
> Sent: Monday, October 18, 2004 1:11 PM
> To: xpbookdiscussiongroup-hHKSG33TihhbjbujkaE4pw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: 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.
> 
> Some skills are specialized and are not needed on a full time 
> basis. That is to say, a team may require a low-level of DBA 
> support over its lifetime (or system administrator, or 
> secretarial help, etc.). So presumably you would say that 
> such a person is not part of the team at all, but rather has 
> the team as his/her customer?



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