IMPROVING SOFTWARE ECONOMICS

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IMPROVING SOFTWARE ECONOMICS

• Chapter 3.3Michael Davis

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IMPROVING TEAM EFFECTIVENESS

• Personnel Differences are HUGE!!!!
• Account for the greatest swings in productivity
• COCOMO model
• Impact factor of 4
• A team of superstars DOES NOT guarantee project
  success
• Superstars Super-Dysfunctional
• Just formulate a good team

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BALANCE AND COVERAGE

• B C
• 2 of the most important aspects
• Whats balance
• Whats coverage
• Theres no I in team

• You can bet
• Well managed team with nominal members can
  succeed
• Mismanaged team with experts will almost never
  succeed
• Well architected system can be built by a nominal
  team
• Poorly architected system given an expert team
  will flounder
• And? What does it mean?

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BARRY BOEHM THINKS

• Principle of top talent
• Principle of job matching
• Principle of career progression
• Principle of team balance
• Principle of phaseout

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TOP TALENT

• Use better and fewer people
• Natural Team Size
• Team Dynamics
• PRESURE

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JOB MATCHING

• Fit the tasks to the skills and motivation of the
  people available
• Who screws in a light bulb with a hammer?
• Dont get caught in a double whammy!

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Career Progression

• An organization does best in the long run by
  helping its people self-actualize
• Self Actualize? Develop or achieve ones full
  potential
• Organizations can be friend or foe
• Organizational Training
• Strategic and educational
• Project Training
• Tactical

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TEAM BALANCE

• Select people who will complement and harmonize
  with one another
• Raw Skill
• intelligence, objectivity, creativity,
  organization
• Psychological Makeup
• Leaders/followers, risk takers/conservatives
• Objectives
• Financial, feature set, quality, timeliness

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PHASEOUT

• Keeping a misfit on the team doesnt help anyone
• Demotivate
• Effects self-actualization
• Obvious
• GET RID OF THEM YESTERDAY!

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BALANCING BALANCE

• Team Balance and Job Matching are 1
• Top Talent and Phaseout are secondary
• Career Progression is the least important
• Back to the Project Manager ?

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PROJECT MANAGERS

• Should possess the following skills
• Hiring Placing the right person in the right
  job
• Customer-Interface Establish a good repose with
  your stakeholders
• Decision-making
• Team-building Manage the many faces and provide
  directive
• Selling skill Negotiation, compromise, and
  empathy

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IT ALL MEANS

• Team effectiveness hangs on the scale of balance
  and coverage
• Superstars dont guarantee a thing
• Personnel Ecosystem and the project manager is
  mother-nature