Programmers seldom work in isolation: Software development is a social human activity, which therefore requires collaboration among the involved programmers. We argue that the main vehicles for programming—the integrated development environments (IDEs)—were designed without collaboration in mind. IDEs focus on a single viewpoint of the system, hence team members are aware of system changes only...

Anorexia nervosa has the highest mortality rate of any psychiatric condition and its management is complex and multi-faceted, requiring a multidisciplinary team approach. Dietitians are an important part of the multidisciplinary team, offering objective nutritional advice with the aim of helping the patient to develop an improved relationship with food. Refeeding patients with a low body weight...

FAMILY-CENTERED care is an approach to the planning and delivery of health care that is based on partnerships among patients, families, healthcare providers, and hospitals. Family-centered care encourages a collaborative, team approach that respects individual and family strengths, cultures, traditions, and expertise. Providing care in a family-centered way honors the involvement of the patient...

I currently work on a project where we adopted an agile process that integrates elements of extreme programming and agile modeling. Our approach is unconventional however; instead of the team being colocated, I work remotely as the lead developer. The risk of increased communication costs can be mitigated rather easily. However, trust is the most complicated element of team dynamics to establis...

Recent guidelines recommend that where appro priate, procedures for the development of audit in medicine and professions allied to medicine can be replaced by comprehensive multidisciplinary audit of services. The Royal College of Psychiatrists (1990) suggests that clinical audit, involving the work of other staffin the multidisciplinary team, is preferable to purely medical audit. Given the im...