The Uniting the Holy Trinity of Web Design panel at SxSW2007 discussed the importance of bringing business, design, and development considerations together to make great products.
- The Holy Trinity: business, user, development
- Need to get buy in from full team: communication is important.
- Generalists are out of Fashion? Web masters were the norm previously. Specialization scares smart people.
- Small teams are good teams. At Yahoo! Sports, teams of 4-5 work in small groups then get together.
- Empower your development team.
- Physical separation might create artificial team separation.
- Having fun with your team is important: get time together to lighten mood.
- Making people happy: it keeps teams together and excited.
- Extreme programming helps making coding more engaging and interactive vs. being solidarity.
- Stand-up meetings help make you aware of what everyone is doing and empathize with their roadblocks and milestones.
- If you include your client in the process, they feel vested in the solution. Your client is part of the team.
- How to assemble a great: people make the difference.