Organizational busy work tends to expand to fill the working day.
Visual supervision is a joke for development workers. Visual supervision is for prisoners.
Quality is free, but only to those who are willing to pay heavily for it.
Training is practice doing a new task much more slowly than an expert would do it.
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.
Computer system analysis is like child-rearing; you can do grievous damage, but you cannot ensure success.