Project Cost Management

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CHAPTER 4

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Object-Oriented Software Engineering

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TEAMS

Stephen R. Schach

srs@vuse.vanderbilt.edu

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Overview

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4.1 Team Organization

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Team organization Democratic team approach Chief programmer team approach Beyond chief programmer and democratic teams Synchronize-and-stabilize teams Teams for agile processes Open-source programming teams People capability maturity model Choosing an appropriate team organization

A product must be completed within 3 months, but 1 person-year of programming is still needed Solution:

– If one programmer can code the product in 1 year, four programmers can do it in 3 months

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Nonsense!

– Four programmers will probably take nearly a year – The quality of the product is usually lower

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Task Sharing

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Task Sharing (contd)

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If one farm hand can pick a strawberry field in 10 days, ten farm hands can pick the same strawberry field in 1 day One elephant can produce a calf in 22 months, but 22 elephants cannot possibly produce that calf in 1 month

Unlike elephant production, it is possible to share coding tasks between members of a team Unlike strawberry picking, team members must interact in a meaningful and effective way

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Programming Team Organization

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Programming Team Organization (contd)

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Example:

– Sheila and Harry code two modules,

m1

and

m2,

say

This has nothing whatsoever to do with technical competency

– Team organization is a managerial issue

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