Codermetrics: Analytics for Improving Software Teams

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How can you help your software team improve? This concise book introduces codermetrics, a clear and objective way to identify, analyze, and discuss the successes and failures of software engineers—not as part of a performance review, but as a way to make the team a more cohesive and productive unit.

Experienced team builder Jonathan Alexander explains how codermetrics helps teams understand exactly what occurred during a project, and enables each coder to focus on specific improvements. Alexander presents a variety of simple and complex codermetrics, and teaches you how to create your own.

• Learn how codermetrics changes long-held assumptions and improves team dynamics
• Get recommendations for integrating codermetrics into existing processes
• Ask the right questions to determine the type of data you need to collect
• Use metrics to measure individual coder skills and a team’s effectiveness over time
• Identify the contributions each coder makes to the team
• Analyze the response to your software and its features—and verify that you're meeting team and organizational goals
• Build better teams, using codermetrics to make personnel adjustments and additions

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Beautiful Teams: Inspiring and Cautionary Tales from Veteran Team Leaders

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What's it like to work on a great software development team facing an impossible problem? How do you build an effective team? Can a group of people who don't get along still build good software? How does a team leader keep everyone on track when the stakes are high and the schedule is tight?

Beautiful Teams takes you behind the scenes with some of the most interesting teams in software engineering history. You'll learn from veteran team leaders' successes and failures, told through a series of engaging personal stories -- and interviews -- by leading programmers, architects, project managers, and thought leaders.

This book includes contributions from:

• Tim O'Reilly
• Scott Berkun
• Mark Healey
• Bill DiPierre
• Andy Lester
• Keoki Andrus
• Tom Tarka
• Auke Jilderda
• Grady Booch
• Jennifer Greene
• Mike Cohn
• Cory Doctorow
• Neil Siegel
• Trevor Field
• James Grenning
• Steve McConnell
• Barry Boehm and Maria H. Penedo
• Peter Gluck
• Karl E. Wiegers
• Alex Martelli
• Karl Fogel
• Michael Collins
• Karl Rehmer
• Andrew Stellman
• Ned Robinson
• Scott Ambler
• Johanna Rothman
• Mark Denovich and Eric Renkey
• Patricia Ensworth
• Andy Oram
• Tony Visconti

Beautiful Teams is edited by Andrew Stellman and Jennifer Greene, veteran software engineers and project managers who have been writing bestselling books for O'Reilly since 2005, including Applied Software Project Management, Head First PMP, and Head First C#.

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The State of Baseball Management: Decision-Making in the Best and Worst Teams, 1993-2003

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In recent years there has been a great deal of discussion about the economics of baseball. For most of that time, the assumption inside and outside the game has been that there is simply too much disparity between "the haves" and "the have-nots," especially in terms of salaries and team payrolls.

The top five teams (Atlanta Braves, New York Yankees, Cleveland Indians, Seattle Mariners, Houston Astros) and bottom five teams (Florida Marlins, Kansas City Royals, Milwaukee Brewers, Pittsburgh Pirates, Detroit Tigers) over the past ten years are analyzed here. The author considers many factors in his evaluation of each team’s performance, among them team philosophies and business models as shown through trades and free agent acquisitions, general managers’ moves and personnel decisions, and player performance.

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