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In their book, “Leadership, Teamwork, and Trust: Building a Competitive Software Capability“, Watts Humphrey and James Over model a typical software project system via the diagram below (note that they have separate Quality Assurance and Test groups and they put the “project office” on top).

Bulldozer00 would have modeled the typical project system like this:

Of course, the immature and childish BD00 model would be “inappropriate” for inclusion into a serious book that assumes impeccable, business-like behavior and maturity emanating from each sub-group. Oh, and the book wouldn’t sell many copies to the deep pocketed audience that it targets. D’oh!