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Coding alone and coding in a team are two very different activities. Often people do not realize how quickly the complexity of teamwork explodes as the number of people increases. If you struggle to see the benefits of a development process, or if you have never thought about the productivity of teams of different sizes, this article is for you.
Thinkers such as Jeff Sutherland, Taiichi Ohno, and Kent Beck designed different forms of production processes to organize and tame team interaction complexities. Those processes form a body of well-defined frameworks that can be used to manage the flow of communication, providing a method to synchronize interactions between team members and attempting to create some predictability of the team’s output. ...
