Summary

Building a well-balanced and harmonious team is difficult. Therefore, the team should not spend lots of time structuring the team initially. It is something that will organically evolve over the life cycle. Where the team should initially spend time is thinking about how best to advocate for their constituencies and their quality goals. MSF believes this is best accomplished by using a team model with seven advocacy groups:

  • Product Management

  • Program Management

  • Architecture

  • Development

  • Test

  • User Experience

  • Release/Operations

The MSF Team Model is structured to couple advocacy groups closely with their respective constituencies. This enables each advocacy group to understand more easily the totality of what they are advocating. To assist in understanding ...

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