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.

If you find yourself concentrating on the technology rather than the sociology, you're like the vaudeville character who loses his keys on a dark street and looks for them on the adjacent street because, as he explains, "The light is better there."

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

Organizational busy work tends to expand to fill the working day.

The purpose of a team is not goal attainment but goal alignment.

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.