Give a software team an interesting project and you will have a group of happy campers -- true or false? Well, you might say, interesting projects are fine, but team performance is also influenced by good management and a decent salary. Very few happy campers earn a poor salary.
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.