With DHH in Palo Alto on Flickr.
thoughtbot currently consists of 14 developers and 5 designers. This summer, we organized into 4 smaller teams. We rotate teams every 2 months.
We started our third rotation this week, a moment which prompted the designers to create movie posters for their new teams.
The benefit of team…
“We manage our sales pipeline so that we don’t start new projects right before a rotation.
Another goal is for teams to work on as few simultaneous projects as possible. With our previous free-for-all, some people had to work on 3-4 projects a week. That’s too much context switching. With the rotations, it’s easier to schedule fairly and easier to keep the weekly projects down to 1-2 per team.”
Hell yeah.
Open Development in a world where everything is connected - via @PARCinc
Jim Zemlin of the Linux Foundation discusses how companies are leveraging a shared code base to build differentiated services that compete in a market where there is no time to develop behind closed doors. via @PARCinc
