Description

What's it like to work on a great software development team facing an impossible problem? How do you build an effective team? Can a group of people who don't get along still build good software? How does a team leader keep everyone on track when the stakes are high and the schedule is tight?

Beautiful Teams takes you behind the scenes with some of the most interesting teams in software engineering history. You'll learn from veteran team leaders' successes and failures, told through a series of engaging personal stories -- and interviews -- by leading programmers, architects, project managers, and thought leaders.

This book includes contributions from:

Tim O'Reilly
Scott Berkun
Mark Healey
Bill DiPierre
Andy Lester
Keoki Andrus
Tom Tarka
Auke Jilderda
Grady Booch
Jennifer Greene
Mike Cohn
Cory Doctorow
Neil Siegel
Trevor Field
James Grenning
Steve McConnell
Barry Boehm and Maria H. Penedo
Peter Gluck
Karl E. Wiegers
Alex Martelli
Karl Fogel
Michael Collins
Karl Rehmer
Andrew Stellman
Ned Robinson
Scott Ambler
Johanna Rothman
Mark Denovich and Eric Renkey
Patricia Ensworth
Andy Oram
Tony Visconti

Beautiful Teams is edited by Andrew Stellman and Jennifer Greene, veteran software engineers and project managers who have been writing bestselling books for O'Reilly since 2005, including Applied Software Project Management, Head First PMP, and Head First C#.