Resources
This document lists resources used to compile a six-part series on software team dynamics. Did you miss the beginning? Start with the Introduction to the series.
Otherwise, read on to seek what I sought.
Hiring & Building Teams
- First Round Review, How Stripe Built One of Silicon Valley’s Best Engineering Teams
- The New York Times, What Google Learned From Its Quest to Build the Perfect Team
- Harvard Business Review, The New Science of Building Great Teams
- Harvard Business Review, Eight Ways to Build Collaborative Teams
- Built to Adapt, 10x-ing Your Team: The End of Superstar Developer Culture
- Avichal Garg, Focus on building 10x teams, not on hiring 10x developers
- Harvard Business Review, What Science Says About Identifying High-Potential Employees
- Wikipedia, T-shaped skills
- Steve Jobs, Speech to the Academy of Achievement June 1982
Managing & Motivating Teams
- re:Work, The five keys to a successful Google team
- Signal v. Noise, How we structure our work and teams at Basecamp
- Harvard Business Review, Five Critical Roles in Project Management
- Harvard Business Review, What Great Managers Do
- Harvard Business Review, Are You a Good Boss—or a Great One?
- The RSA, The surprising truth about what motivates us
- Harvard Business Review, Why People Really Quit Their Jobs
- Harvard Business Review, Tours of Duty: The New Employer-Employee Compact
Safety & Trust
- The New York Times, What Google Learned From Its Quest to Build the Perfect Team
- Wall Street Journal, New Report Finds a ‘Diversity Dividend’ at Work
- Harvard Business Review, The New Science Of Team Chemistry
- Harvard Business Review, The Neuroscience of Trust
- Harvard Business Review, Proof That Positive Work Cultures Are More Productive
- Harvard Business Review, Forming Stronger Bonds with People at Work
- Harvard Business Review, Research: For Better Brainstorming, Tell an Embarrassing Story
- Harvard Business Review, What Having a “Growth Mindset” Actually Means
- YouTube, Marshall Rosenberg Videos
- Psychological Bulletin, Developmental sequence in small groups
Organizational Structure & Culture
- Netflix, We keep improving our culture as we grow
- Harvard Business Review, Creating the Best Workplace on Earth
- Harvard Business Review, What It Means to Work Here
- Gallup, Moneyball for Business: Employee Engagement Meta-Analysis
- Better Software Magazine, What HR Doesn’t Know about Scrum
- Michael James, 7 Obstacles to Enterprise Agility
- Michael James, An Example Checklist for ScrumMasters
- Agile Modeling, Generalizing Specialists: Improving Your IT Career Skills
- Forbes, The 5 Types of Organizational Structures: Part 5, Holocratic Organizations
- Research in Organizational Behavior, How, When, and Why Bad Apples Spoil the Barrel: Negative Group Members and Dysfunctional Groups
Books
- Crucial Conversations, Kerry Patterson, Joseph Grenny, & Ron McMillan
- Mindset, Carol S. Dweck
- Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life, Marshall B. Rosenberg
- The Mythical Man-Month, Frederick P. Brooks
- Agile Retrospectives, Esther Derby & Diana Larsen
- Agile Modeling, Scott W. Ambler
- Scaling Lean & Agile Development, Craig Larman & Bas Vodde
- Steve Jobs, Walter Isaacson
