The Software Team

If a cat can kill a rat in a minute, how long would it be killing 60,000 rats? Ah, how long, indeed! My private opinion is that the rats would kill the cat.

Lewis Carroll (Cats and Rats, February 1880)

Large teams can attack problems that lie beyond the reach of any one individual.

Although undisciplined mobs can perform impressive acts of destruction, they are less effective when asked to perform constructive tasks such as software development.

In this lesson, we consider the problem of organizing a group of software developers into an effective team.

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