Spread knowledge within the team to raise your bus quotient When the team starts to develop their new application together many things might be new… Read More »‘The next risky item’ should apply to the team too
Align people on features instead of front and back end work. Whoever devised the terms ‘front-end’ and ‘back-end’, as well as ‘full-stack developer’ has a… Read More »Front-end and back-end sub-teams are a bad idea
Together is the way in team collaboration. I was having a virtual coffee yesterday when the other person said something which resonated with me. He… Read More »Teach students to unlearn independent work to be better collaborators
Diversity in our tasks aids the work of the team I’ve recently been hearing students tell their team members that they want to do something… Read More »Swap roles to provide diversity in perspectives on the work
Thin slices speed up learning, and are less challenging Thin slices have so many good aspects to them when building applications. You are focusing on… Read More »Teach students that thin slices are best
It’s all guesswork for student teams, so have them start to learn more. The only time you know how long something will take is when… Read More »Teach students to stop estimating, and just start the work
Teach students how to level up their team collaboration to achieve more A few months ago Cliff Hazel posted a question on LinkedIn that speculated… Read More »Teamwork should be multiplicative not additive
Keep removing risks to reduce uncertainty in your work The software engineering textbooks, and the project management ones too that I’ve seen all suggest you… Read More »Do the most risky part of the product next in team collaborations
Pause and think of how you might improve the work you do as a team. Growing up in the midwest of the US I remember… Read More »Student software engineering teams need to learn to use retrospectives
Meet with a regular rhythm to synch your work together. I regularly guide student teams in software engineering at both undergraduate and postgraduate level. The… Read More »Software engineering student teams should meet with a suitable cadence for their work