This book focuses on sustainable software development processes for teams: two or more individuals who work together regularly, are effective, and share compatible goals. Working together doesn’t mean the team physically sits together in the same room, but it does mean team members collaborate synchronously, completing tasks together (e.g. pair programming) rather than divvying up tasks to complete separately.
This book approaches software development from multiple perspectives—not only economic success but also impacts on the environmental impact, development team, and broader society, it also explains how to implement practices and the surprising science behind the practices in an approachable, sometimes cheeky style.
Chapter 1: Overview,
Chapter 2: Balanced Teams,
Chapter 3: The Product
Backlog,
Chapter 4: Boundary Spanning,
Chapter 5: Project Management,
Chapter
6: Introducing Track One,
Chapter 7: Making Sense of the Project Environment,
Chapter 8: Design Thinking,
Chapter 9: Introducing Track Two,
Chapter 10:
Clean Code and Tests,
Chapter 11: Integrating and Delivering,
Chapter 12:
Toward Organizational Justice, and
Chapter 13: Conclusion.
Dr. Todd Sedano, PhD (Carnegie Mellon University) enjoys creating inclusive engineering environments, empowering others to excel, and coaching others by listening and reframing from a growth mindset. He has more than 25 years of experience as a software engineer and engineering manager at leading organizations including NASA JPL, Pivotal Labs, VMWare, Enjoy, Gusto, and ID.me. Todd has published scholarly articles on software development waste, agile teams, product backlogs, and dual-track development. His academic research became the foundation for this book. His current hobbies include riding roller coasters, improvisational theater, and American Kenpo.
Dr. D. Paul Ralph, PhD (British Columbia), B.Sc. / B.Comm (Memorial), is an award-winning scientist, author, consultant, Professor of Software Engineering and director of the Dalhousie Software Engineering Lab. His cutting-edge research at the intersection of software engineering, human-computer interaction, and project management investigates how to improve the environmental, social, economic, and technical sustainability of software development. Dr. Ralphs previous research has been published in over 100 peer-review articles and been used by leading technology companies including Adobe, Amazon, AT&T, Canon, IBM, Google, HP, Microsoft, Netflix, Oracle, PayPal, Samsung, Salesforce, VMWare, Yahoo!, and Walmart.
