Chief programmer team

A chief programmer team is a programming team organized in a star around a "chief" role, granted to the software engineer who understands the system's intentions the best. Other team members get supporting roles.

The concept is similar to that of a surgical team in which a surgeon who performs the operation is supported by medical staff such as an anaesthetist and nurses. Fred Brooks describes the concept in detail in The Mythical Man-Month, as proposed by Harlan Mills in 1971.

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