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.

Product quality has almost nothing to do with defects or their lack.

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

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

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

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.

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."