PART I: THE "MAKE OR BREAK" OF A PROJECT
How important are development teams to the success of a software project? Does team structure really matter? To a varying degree, most of us believe that it does. After all, almost two decades ago, Cutter Business Technology Council Fellows Tom DeMarco and Tim Lister showed that most issues that arise in technology projects are people issues, not technical ones, and successful projects consistently give significant weight to the human factor [2].