Pain of Your Back(up) or Efficient Resourcing of Back-up Solutions for Programming Leads
Adam Amborski · 2013
There are a number of possibilities to provide continuity of processes in a programming team set-up with one lead programmer being the only team member exposed to interactions with other stakeholders and responsible for oversight of all the activities when this person is unavailable temporarily or permanently. A role of an earlyassigned back-up is considered. Apart from decreasing the vulnerability to unexpected situations, this allows consultations and peer review of decisions and strategy. In this paper, several scenarios for a back-up lead programmer selection are discussed in terms of cost-benefit ratio.