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Coordination Costs - The overhead required for multiple people to work together effectively on shared goals.
After-Action Review - A structured debriefing process to analyze what happened, why it happened, and how to improve, originally developed by the U.S. Army.
Affinity Estimation - A collaborative estimation technique where team members silently group work items by relative size to quickly estimate large backlogs.
Bus Factor - The number of team members who would need to be unavailable before a project stalls.
Team Dynamics - The behavioral patterns and psychological forces that influence how teams function and perform.
Velocity - A measure of the amount of work a team completes during a sprint, used for planning.
Sprint Retrospective - A team meeting at the end of each sprint to reflect on process and identify improvements.
Code Review - A quality assurance practice where one or more developers examine code written by a peer before it's merged into the codebase.
Delegation Poker - A Management 3.0 card game where teams collaboratively decide the appropriate delegation level for decisions and tasks.
Daily Standup - A brief daily team meeting to synchronize work and identify blockers.
Blameless Postmortem - An incident review practice focused on understanding what happened and improving systems rather than assigning blame to individuals.
Pair Programming - An agile software development technique where two programmers work together at one workstation, sharing a single screen and keyboard.
Conway's Law - Organizations design systems that mirror their own communication structures.
Cross-Training - The practice of training team members in each other's roles and responsibilities to reduce knowledge concentration and increase organizational resilience.
Wideband Delphi - A structured group estimation technique that combines anonymous individual estimates with facilitated discussion rounds.
Definition of Done - A shared checklist of criteria that must be met for work to be considered complete.
Delegation Board - A visual management tool that maps delegation levels for different decision areas, making authority boundaries transparent.
Surgical Team - The Surgical Team is Fred Brooks's proposed team organization where a chief programmer handles all design decisions, supported by specialists who amplify productivity while preserving conceptual integrity.
Group Decision Making - Processes for teams to reach decisions that leverage collective intelligence while avoiding pitfalls.
Transactive Memory - Shared memory system where group members specialize in different knowledge domains and coordinate to access collective information.
Team Charter - A document defining a team's purpose, goals, roles, and operating principles.
Myers-Briggs Type Indicator - A personality assessment categorizing individuals into 16 types based on four dichotomies: Extraversion/Introversion, Sensing/Intuition, Thinking/Feeling, and Judging/Perceiving.
Scrum - An agile framework for managing complex work through iterative sprints and defined roles.
Skunkworks - A small, autonomous team given freedom to work on breakthrough innovations outside normal structures.
Devil's Advocate - A designated role for challenging assumptions and arguments to improve group thinking.
Working Agreements - Explicit team agreements about how members will work together and treat each other.
DISC Assessment - A behavioral assessment measuring four personality traits—Dominance, Influence, Steadiness, and Conscientiousness—widely used in workplace settings for team building and communication.
Retrospective - A structured team meeting held after a project or iteration to reflect on what went well, what didn't, and how to improve.
Coordination Neglect - The tendency to underestimate the time and effort required for coordination when planning multi-person projects.
Wisdom of Crowds - Under the right conditions, collective judgments of groups are often more accurate than individual expert opinions.
Collective Intelligence - Shared intelligence that emerges from collaboration, collective efforts, and competition among groups, enabling capabilities beyond what individuals can achieve alone.
Shared Responsibility - Distributing ownership and accountability across team members rather than concentrating it.
Group Flow - A collective state where teams experience synchrony, optimal performance, and shared engagement.
Shared Information Bias - The tendency for group members to spend more time discussing information everyone already knows, while neglecting unique information held by individual members.
Cross-Functional Teams - Teams composed of members with different functional expertise working toward shared goals.
Scrumban - A hybrid agile approach combining Scrum's structure with Kanban's flow-based principles.
Planning Poker - A consensus-based estimation technique where team members simultaneously reveal cards to estimate effort.
T-Shirt Sizing - An estimation technique using clothing sizes (XS, S, M, L, XL) to categorize work items by relative effort.
Sprint Planning - A collaborative meeting where the team selects and plans work for the upcoming sprint.
Tribal Knowledge - Undocumented information known only to specific individuals or groups within an organization.
End-to-End Ownership - Taking complete responsibility for a problem or project from identification through resolution, without handing off or dropping pieces along the way.
Brooks's Law - Brooks's Law states that adding manpower to a late software project makes it later, because of ramp-up time, communication overhead, and task indivisibility.
Delegation - The process of assigning responsibility and authority for tasks to others.
Shared Understanding - Common knowledge, perspectives, and mental models that enable effective team collaboration.
Social Loafing - The tendency for individuals to exert less effort when working in a group than when working alone, as individual contributions become less identifiable.
Story Points - A relative estimation unit measuring the effort and complexity of user stories.
Circus Factor - The risk of team members leaving for more exciting opportunities elsewhere.

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