Groundswell: Two Patterns of Technical Leadership
Dirk Riehle · 2001
The two patterns of this article discuss an experience of technical leadership that I have had and seen many times over: how to help change the behavior of developers such that all developers (of a team or of a development organi-zation) follow a common practice and thereby make the team more effective. Examples are adhering to common programming guidelines, supporting a consistent testing process, and using the same programming environment. The pattern context of application are small to medium-size development organizations that do not have an established standard-setting process but tend to solve problems in an ad-hoc way. 1