> Quick quiz, hot shot: what did you think of the surgery team metaphor?
Interesting side discussion -- I have just started reading the book, but I did think that the idea of the surgical team was an interesting and radical departure from the standard "two-pizza team" pattern of a few developers that are considered roughly equivalent aside from minor leveling changes. My personal thoughts were that it would be hard to see success with the model unless you made sure all the roles were recognized as being equally important towards the success of the team.
Interesting side discussion -- I have just started reading the book, but I did think that the idea of the surgical team was an interesting and radical departure from the standard "two-pizza team" pattern of a few developers that are considered roughly equivalent aside from minor leveling changes. My personal thoughts were that it would be hard to see success with the model unless you made sure all the roles were recognized as being equally important towards the success of the team.
I had wondered about (and rour comment inspired me to look up) whether people have had any experience trying it out, https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/3552... has some interesting references and pitfalls of the approach.