As Dave mentioned in yesterday’s post, our Top Team of 2009 was our Accounting Product Development team (a.k.a. the Beans team).  Two years ago when we started making some fundamental changes to how we developed software, the Beans team was the guinea pig.  2009 for that team was really the year where they hit their stride.  Here are just a few accomplishments of the team in this past year. 

• 6 major releases in 2009
• Hit all release dates and desired major features
• High quality (consistently achieving low post-release defect numbers)
• 21% increase in team velocity (development speed)
• Migrated product to Rackspace without customer impact
• Overhauled the conversion process (not originally part of the roadmap)
• Significant progress in unit test coverage (> 50% improvement)
• Continued to optimize the system to handle more and larger clients
• Excellent team attitude and sense of ownership

Great stuff.  The team was made up of Valeria, Jere, Matt D, Patrick, Bryan H, Samuel, and Shane.  I’ve heard they are already talking two-peat in 2010…but it is going to be tough, the competition will be stiff this year, with some other teams already strong out of the gate.  At least they have a leg up with their new 25.5” monitors and Bose headphones…

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