Re: Frontend/backend team with different technology stacks

"Steven Gordon [email protected] [extremeprogramming]" <[email protected]>
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On Sat, Feb 25, 2017 at 6:06 PM, Eb [email protected] [extremeprogramming] <
[email protected]> wrote:

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> Hi Jan -
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>> Separating the teams smells with waterfall, but does joining the two
>> groups together in a team outweigh the cost in this case?
>> Does it make sense to split the frontend team and perhaps make the
>> backend part more cross-functional towards the core of the system instead?
>> Does anyone have successful experience with frontend+backend teams
>> without full-stack developers (or teams with little shared knowledge in
>> general)?
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> What is the cost of joining the two groups together?  How many people in
> total are we looking at that would be in this new team?
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> Eb
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If a unified team is too large, two separate full-stack feature teams is
better than one front-end and one back-end team.

If testing is also separate (as I am imagining), then folding testers in as
well makes the size even bigger, so multiple "feature" teams may be
unavoidable.



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