Questions tagged [team-building]
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How to keep consistency across the application architecture as a team grows?
As the sole developer in a startup, I had the luxury of being able to make a lot of decisions in the architecture and frameworks of our application.
Fast forward 4 years and an acquisition later, I have a team of 5 and a lot of times it feels like…
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What are the main things a programmer expects from the senior programmer?
Recently I read the following 5 Types Of Bosses and How To Deal With Them
, which describes the attires of the worst boss. I've just started leading a small team of software developers.
I would like to know what are the main things a programmer…
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Are there reasons other than budget for hiring "entry-level" programmers?
Are there reasons other than budget for hiring "entry-level" programmers?
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Helping a new programmer become more self-proficient and not ask me so much?
I'm currently working on a project with a new programmer. How do I help him speed up his work? He often asks me questions, and I pair programmed with him in backbone.js (a part of the project).
Now I want him to handle the project himself so I can…
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Inspiring a co-worker to adopt better coding practices?
In the Handling my antiquated coworker question, various people discussed strategies for dealing with coworkers who are unwilling to integrate their workflow with the team's.
I'd like, if possible, to learn some strategies for "teaching" a coworker…
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How to run developer team meetings?
Our team of 10 developers meet weekly. The meetings are rather boring and not particularly useful. What format/agenda do you utilize to have good meetings?
We meet weekly in the conference room with pizza provided. The format is we go around the…
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How to foster intrinsic motivation in a software team
Jeff Atwood's blog post on Amazon's Mechanical Turk suggests that it should not offer monetary rewards but rather intrinsic motivation, "motivation that is driven by an interest or enjoyment in the task itself, and exists within the individual…
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Project In A Week / development bootcamp
Our team is thinking of doing a "Project In A Week" (bootcamp), and I'm interested to know if anyone else has experience of doing this or has any advice?
The idea behind it is to get away from the distractions of the office, motivate each other, and…
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Bogarting the Data Access Layer
Situation: The dba is an offsite contractor who keeps the entire DAL code checked out in TFS. It would be nice as the front end developer to be able to add columns, and tweak procs and whatnot, without having to rely on waiting for this dude to…
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What could be a good team building activity to improve estimation skills?
I'm putting together a presentation to deliver to some of my teammates (all developers), and I'd like to include a short team building activity that focuses on improving estimation skills. Does anyone have any suggestions or know of any team…
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Who should determine team size?
Developers, managers, or customers? I was recently involved in a situation where I felt like the customers were arbitrarily demanding for more developers on a team which already had too many developers. They were scared the project was going to be…
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Essential roles for web application team
Some friends of mine came up with an idea for a web application which we (so far) think could be great. I made the analysis and all the early stages of the development process and I'm about to start the coding. I'm talking about something that is…
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Continuously Improving output of a team
I am having my own software service company, DIGICORP and I am leading a team of 10 developers. The total company size is of around 50 persons. We are four friends who have started this venture from 2004.
During last year, we have read the Getting…
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How to harness the chaos within the development team?
I'm a rather experienced software developer. I worked with many teams and projects throughout my career so far. The recent two projects, however, challenged me in an unusual way. Namely: they were disorganized, or rather organized in a way that I…
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Is it a good idea to use a kitchen-sink server for various services?
My (new) development team is setting up its software development environment. I won't describe the whole scenario, since that's another, much-maligned question.
Anyway, we're going to have services such as source control (mercurial), a wiki, an…
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