NOTE: This article is written by Dave Chaplin, an IT Consultant with 10 years experience. He leads and mentors teams of developers on agile .NET projects and has extensive experience in agile development techniques, particularly Test-Driven Development. Dave can be emailed atdavechaplin@byte-vision.com.
Date: Sunday, October 06, 2002
And it was taken from the following URL: http://www.byte-vision.com/TeamLeadingTipsArticle.aspx
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Successful Team Leading |
This article describes some practical tips for successfully leading a team of software developers. It defines what success means and then describes some very common sense tips for achieving that success.
What deems a project to be successful?
The primary goal of any software project is to meet the user requirements and make sure the users are delighted. If something has been built that nobody wants, it makes no difference what happens to staff turnovers, budgets or training. If requirements are not met, the project is a failure. The next goal after requirements is probably to complete the project within the required budget. After that, there might be others requiring staff to be trained, and so on.
Here are a number of tips for team leaders to help them achieve success in their own projects.