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So instead of looking for ways to make team formation possible, we began to think of ways to make it impossible. That was easy. In no time at all, we came up with lots of surefire ways to inhibit the formation of teams and disrupt project sociology. These measures, taken together, constitute a strategy we dubbed teamicide.
Our short list of teamicide techniques is
* Defensive management
* Bureaucracy
* Physical separation
* Fragmentation of people’s time
* Quality reduction of the product
* Phony deadlines
* Clique control
Some of these techniques will look awfully familiar. They are ...
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