Team Design

About the Book

The revised edition of Team Design is a comprehensive guidebook to team systems development practice. Team Design gives consultants, system designers, product managers, facilitators, and project managers a total consulting toolkit in one book. A revision of Handbook of Team Design (McGraw-Hill, 1998), this update streamlines some practices and accounts for recent changes in technology and process. Team Design provides a comprehensive approach to collaboration in software product development for creating best-practice deliverables. It offers formats and methods for team workshops, based on your organization, business, project type, desired end result, and lifecycle phase. Five formats (Business Process Design, Requirements Definition, Application Design, Team Planning, Decision Making) serve most system design and development projects. A separate chapter is devoted to each format, simplifying the process of adapting workshop activities to product lifecycles and project phase. Workshop methods (brainstorming, diagrams, scenario analysis) are recommended for each phase’s deliverables. Team Design gives you a foundation for both time-proven and leading edge best practices, allowing you to choose and make the right fit. It will become a formidable tool for everyday project and product management.

About the Author

Peter Jones engages organizations in building organizational innovation. A software product designer and usability consultant since the start of the PC revolution, Dr. Jones leads software product innovation and customer research for Web-based and commercial product ventures, ranging from Internet startups to Global 1000 companies. Dr. Jones conducts workshops and publishes research on innovation practice, knowledge management, and organizational strategy. Developed from Ph.D. research in Design and Innovation Management from The Union Institute, Dr. Jones advocates values-oriented design practices that fit an organization’s culture. His research in software design and organizational process focuses on core values in design process, and resolving user and organizational values in product design. He also holds a Master’s in Experimental Psychology from the University of Dayton, and continues to learn and teach whenever possible. Visit the Team Design website at: www.poetics.org/innova