| A multidisciplinary thesis presenting a Pattern Language, of solutions from Social Science's group theory, designed to facilitate the growth and maintenance of highly effective groups, also known as teams.; Groups of Software developers must overcome many issues on their path to becoming highly effective groups. This thesis proposes that the vast number of solutions to these issues, in the domain of group theory, is a sub category of Organizational Patterns that the author introduces as People Patterns. These patterns address the specific issues that must be resolved for optimal performance of the group.; This thesis proposes the use of a state machine in the form of the Sequential Stage Theory of Group Development as described by Tuckman in 1977 to partition the People Patterns into groups identified by their forces. This partitioning is used to organize and present the solutions in the form of a Pattern Language of People Patterns. |
