Building a Winning Team: Hiring, Developing, and Nurturing Your People

With the changing landscape of software development, it is vital to select and develop people who will help your team excel. To do so, you must operate much the way a winning coach in a highly competitive sport selects and develops players with the right mix of talents and skills. Then, you need to organize the team so that the "players" are in the roles that will allow them to best contribute to the team's success. Learn the secrets of role-based team construction that will allow your group to deliver a consistently high level of performance. Enable your team to increase the scope of problems and challenges that they can tackle-and have fun accomplishing. Find out about the characteristics and dynamics of winning teams and winning team leadership, and take back a model for building and improving your team.

• Goals, strategies, and plans for developing a winning team
• The different roles that make up a winning team
• Individual and group development tips for a winning team