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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 members are to start out, the more experience they have working together, the better their teams ...

From ''Hard Facts, Dangerous Half-Truths, and Total Nonsense'' by Jeffrey Pfeffer and Robert I. Sutton, Page 78Employee loyalty, engagement, and commitment are important benefits, but not the whole story. In a typical organization, people charged with building and maintaining relationships with others -- such as customers or employees -- work in a ...

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 powerful effects of the cinematography. In fact, in retrospect, I realize that cinematography ...

One of the interesting lessons in working with Mingle is figuring out how to measure velocity and track burndown.  I'm on the track, but haven't quite figured it out yet. While working in Mingle, Scott Bellware came and looked at what I was doing. ''What cards are you recording in Mingle?  Are you including task cards?'' ''Yup - ...

Interesting self-referential experience regarding Mingle. The version I'm using has ''expired''.  Since guys on my team installed it in the first place, I asked them to install the latest (release, five free users).  What response would you expect?''I think that deserves a card.''In retrospect, it's obvious.  Anything that requires ...

Since Bret Pettichord has a connection to ThoughtWorks, we got an early look at their new agile project management tool, Mingle.  Being a lover of tools that (hopefully) make my life easier and/or provide greater richness in my environment, I leapt in with both feet. Mingle ships with several different PM templates: XP, Scrum, and XP/Scrum ...