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Matt Heusser takes on one of my favorite recent peeves with: The Fishing Maturity Model.

Gojko Adzic writes about a recent XPDay 09 session: Shock therapy agile adoption at 7Digital. The good news with this shock therapy is that no humans appear to have been harmed in the process.

High Performance teams (see: "The Wisdom of Teams" by Jon Katzenbach and Douglas Smith) is important background for Agile teams. In “What makes a true team” The Financial Post has effectively done a good job of summarizing Katzenbach and Smith.

Looking for good Lean games, I was reminded of the Theory of Constraints dice game: What is the Dice Game or Match-Bowl Experiment? (quick description) and The Dice Game(s) – better explanation and a chance to fire people if the dice don’t their way :-)

Like clock work every 2-3 months someone on the Scrum Development mailing lists asks: “Can the Product Owner and the Scrum Master the same Person?”. Thanks to Boris Gloger we now have 10 reasons to say no.

We’ve all seen the results of individual rewards – pay someone to fix bugs – you will breed bug writers. Reward Firefighters (on a team) and you will get firefighters. Laszlo Szalvay wrote: Personal Heroics vs. Team Success.

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