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Bliki: Periodic Face-to-Face

Martin Fowler

No video-conference system can create the that depth of interaction, staring at a computer screen to see what other people are doing is draining, with no opportunity to pop out for a coffee together to break up the work. I would avoid any artificial “team buildingexercises, if only because of how much I hate them.

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AoAD2 Practice: Blind Spot Discovery

James Shore

More than anything else, teams build the wrong thing. More than anything else, teams build the wrong thing. I think this happens because so many teams think of their job as building the product they were told to build. But the blind spot I see most often is more fundamental, and more subtle.