Peer Software Development Teams

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This document discusses the Peer Software Development Team structures that have risen to prominence in some organizations. These peer based teams are smaller in size than the traditional project team structure and are far more adaptive. The paper further discusses how, because the size is limited and because of innovations in the structure such as the Scrum method where teams and individual team members can delete, add or manipulate tasks anywhere in the development cycle, these peer team structures are directly aligned with the market and the customer/end-user requirements.

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"Peer Software Development Teams (PSDTs) are a component of Agile Development methodologies which has become project management of choice among innovative organizations because its flexibility and results oriented focus. Many companies, such as Microsoft, have committed to Agile Development methodologies such as the Scrum method which is one of the most important PSDT expressions of community based innovation (Taft, 2005, para.3). Agile Development methodologies empower programmers to program rather than constraining them by traditional project management constraints and PSDT techniques ensure that the benefit of combined skills and talents are utilized in a team environment without saddling the individual programmer with the excessive structures that traditional project management techniques often do."

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