What's a Good Set of Roles to Have Within a Team?

Questions by Mhairi Mcclair in September 2018

  • What make a good technical team? Think of the best team you worked on…what made it a good team?
  • What attributes do you want people to have on such teams?
  • What types of roles do you find on technical teams?
  • What would be a good mixture of roles?
  • What is the job of the team leader?
  • What responsibilities do developers have?
  • Who is responsible for quality?
  • Should testers and designers be part of the development team, or separate departments for each?
  • Should you have separate front end and back end developers? Or full stack?
  • How does Devops fit in?
  • How can you check whether your team structure is working?

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