Visual supervision is a joke for development workers. Visual supervision is for prisoners.

Get the right people. Then no matter what all else you might do wrong after that, the people will save you. That's what management is all about.

The manager's function is not to make people work, but to make it possible for people to work.

Some of the most flowery praise you hear on the subject of teams is only hypocrisy. Managers learn to talk a good game about teams even when they're secretly threatened by the whole concept.

Training is practice doing a new task much more slowly than an expert would do it.

Visual supervision is a joke for development workers. Visual supervision is for prisoners.

First law of Bad Management: If something isn't working, do more of it.