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More excellent content from the Pfeffer/Sutton book (page 94)... What is true for individuals is also true for organizations, groups, and teams. Exceptional performance depends heavily on experience and effort. No matter how gifted (or ordinary) team
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From "Hard Facts, Dangerous Half-Truths, and Total Nonsense" by Jeffrey Pfeffer and Robert I. Sutton, Page 78 Employee loyalty, engagement, and commitment are important benefits, but not the whole story. In a typical organization, people charged with
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This weekend, my wife Debbie and I watched Lady in the Water . ( Before I get to agility, I'll mention that Paul Giamatti is rapidly becoming one of my favorite actors, based on his versatility and skill. ) As I watched the movie, I became aware of the
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The team had a conversation about Ruby and Rails idioms . I find the whole topic fascinating. As I understand it, "idiom" means "the way people in this community like to do things". Or even "the clever ways that people in this community have found to
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There's all this fascinating stuff going on. I attended a session on pair programming, as I mentioned in my last post. There was some excellent discussion about the challenges of pair programming, and a few fun exercises designed to help us learn some
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