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In the early 1950′s, cake mix was introduced in the U.S. Take some mix, add water, and put it in the oven. In ten minutes you had a homemade cake. Great idea, right? It wasn’t. Really bad idea actually. Huge failure! Until one of the vendors figured out what the problem was, took action accordingly [...]

Who has got the most power over your team? Is it your manager, or perhaps your local tech guru? Well…probably not! Not if you picked a reasonably motivated individual anyway… According to team building expert Christopher Avery, the most powerful member of a team is

One of the best ways to get started with an effort to get more agile is to co-locate teams, creating “war-rooms” for them to work in. Studies like this show that co-locating teams at least doubles productivity. In the study above, the teams that used the new facilities after the study was finished actually did [...]