{"id":1316,"date":"2010-01-11T17:52:47","date_gmt":"2010-01-12T00:52:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sarahdopp.com\/blog\/?p=1316"},"modified":"2010-01-11T17:57:26","modified_gmt":"2010-01-12T00:57:26","slug":"small-collaborative-web-dev-teams-a-model","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sarahdopp.com\/blog\/2010\/small-collaborative-web-dev-teams-a-model\/","title":{"rendered":"Small Collaborative Web Dev Teams: A Model"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"juiz-outdated-message jodpm-top\">Heads up, this content is 16 years old. Please keep its age in mind while reading.<\/div><p>Over dinner last Thursday night, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.maymay.net\/blog\">maymay<\/a> and I spent several hours discussing what makes a Good Web Development Team, based on our particular work styles.\u00a0 Here&#8217;s what we came up with (refined from a crude <a href=\"http:\/\/twitpic.com\/x6j0u\">notebook sketch<\/a>):<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1315 aligncenter\" title=\"collab-webdevteam\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sarahdopp.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/collab-webdevteam.png\" alt=\"collab-webdevteam\" width=\"459\" height=\"566\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sarahdopp.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/collab-webdevteam.png 459w, https:\/\/sarahdopp.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/collab-webdevteam-243x300.png 243w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 459px) 100vw, 459px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Particular things to note here&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>All team members have direct access to one another, and are encouraged to work together in real-time.\u00a0 Quality assurance, scope agreements, user experience development, and engineering development all depend on direct collaboration.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/datn.org\/\">D@n<\/a> has already pointed out that we left out Sys Admin.\u00a0 That&#8217;s a good point, and it should probably be its own person, with direct lines to Front-End, Back-End, and Project Manager.<\/li>\n<li>He also expressed concern about QA not being a specific person.\u00a0 I stand by the current model for dev teams that don&#8217;t aspire to grow any bigger than the setup above &#8212; peer-checking is sufficient.\u00a0 As maymay put it, &#8220;QA is a state of mind.&#8221;\u00a0 It&#8217;s always happening, and it can be structured to happen systematically.<\/li>\n<li><em>Job roles<\/em> and <em>personal skills <\/em>don&#8217;t always perfectly align. In my case, I can play both Front-End Developer and Project Manager, each with a particular flavor.\u00a0 And maymay can take on both Front-End and Back-End Developer roles if the expectations are right.\u00a0 But for both of us, it seems the case that if we only have to take on one role per project, we&#8217;re able to do better work.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This is just an abstract exercise in theoretical structuring based on our experience &#8212; not meant as anything to be set in stone. Take it for what you will, and feel free to expand on it.<\/p>\n<p>Enjoy!,<br \/>\nSarah<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Heads up, this content is 16 years old. Please keep its age in mind while reading.Over dinner last Thursday night, maymay and I spent several hours discussing what makes a Good Web Development Team, based on our particular work styles.\u00a0 Here&#8217;s what we came up with (refined from a crude notebook sketch): Particular things to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50,44,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-management","category-philosophy","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sarahdopp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1316","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sarahdopp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sarahdopp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sarahdopp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sarahdopp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1316"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/sarahdopp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1316\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1321,"href":"https:\/\/sarahdopp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1316\/revisions\/1321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sarahdopp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sarahdopp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sarahdopp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}