Part VMaintaining a TSP Team
This was an established team of 12 developers, and they were partway through their first TSP launch. The job was a major functional enhancement for the product this team had been working on for several years. While the launch had gone smoothly through meeting 5, Joan, the team leader, was worried about load balancing. If the work was perfectly balanced, the team would finish in 26 weeks. While this date was later than management wanted, she was confident that she could convince them to buy it. The problem was that in the past, the team members had resisted working on any modules they had not personally developed. She thought they would also resist her efforts to balance the team’s workload.
When she discussed her ...
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