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.

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

The pathology of setting a deadline to the earliest articulable date essentially guarantees that the schedule will be missed.

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

There are a million ways to lose a work day, but not even a single way to get one back.

Computer system analysis is like child-rearing; you can do grievous damage, but you cannot ensure success.

If nothing is declared unchangeable, then the organization will resist all change.