1. Flexible problem solvers. There would always be situations, when your development team might need to restart the project from an initial point or change the direction of the project process. The advantage of a successful development team lies in ability to adjust to the turbulent circumstances and react quickly when potential struggles are looming on the horizon. This results in saving valuable time and preventing bigger, more disastrous issues in the future.
2. People ideas criticism. Human beings are imperfect, that’s why it’s quite normal to have different points of view concerning specific project guidelines and sometimes even fail to compromise with each other. In such situations, a team of sensible developers will never come down hard on people who came up with a wrong solution. They will criticize the idea itself. Such approach in handling arguments is tightly related to the basics of EQ (Emotional Intelligence).
3. A culture of accountability. Fruitful project colleagues realise the essence of their cooperative work and are responsible enough not to outdo each other for the sake of promoting their own careers. Sensible developers can give satisfactory results due to their accountability. That is, they omit the spreading of poisonous roots of lower estimations, wrong assumptions or inane risk taking.
4. A power of delegation. Sometimes you might think that nobody could do this particular task better than you do. In fact, you end up burning the midnight oil while accomplishing a huge bunch of work, that isn’t supposed to be done by only you. Light at the end of the tunnel comes when you start applying delegation skills. What you need to do is basically to set and distribute goals/guidelines and check whether your team can do their pieces of work. Once you delegate authority and provide team members with individual tasks, you can finally take the unnecessary load off your shoulders.
5. Psychological syncing. Finding fitting skill sets within different layers of software development human resources is just the tip of the iceberg. The crucial point is to match not only people’s talents and skills, but also their mindsets and psychological whims. Only in that case a whole team can sync on every level and productively work on the common project.
6. Tracking progress. When people are completely engaged in the working procedure and enjoy it wholeheartedly, they can either be swept along or distracted from the leading project task. In order to avoid such extremes, you have to keep an eye on progress constantly and confirm that the project stays on the right path. As a variant, you may arrange regular intermediary meetings and discuss the project’s status or the completion of certain project stages. In such a way, you’ll come to a conclusion either you’ve assigned roles throughout the team right or you should make some more corrections.
So, you’re done dealing with workflow structuring, monitoring, organizing and delegating tasks. Now, you may upgrade your knowledge related to forming a successful development team by immersing yourself into Agile Methodology.