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Blameless Postmortem - An incident review practice focused on understanding what happened and improving systems rather than assigning blame to individuals.
Bus Factor - The number of team members who would need to be unavailable before a project stalls.
Circus Factor - The risk of team members leaving for more exciting opportunities elsewhere.
Code Review - A quality assurance practice where one or more developers examine code written by a peer before it's merged into the codebase.
Collective Intelligence - The enhanced capability that emerges when groups think and learn together effectively.
Coordination Costs - The overhead required for multiple people to work together effectively on shared goals.
Cross-Functional Teams - Teams composed of members with different functional expertise working toward shared goals.
Daily Standup - A brief daily team meeting to synchronize work and identify blockers.
Definition of Done - A shared checklist of criteria that must be met for work to be considered complete.
Delegation - The process of assigning responsibility and authority for tasks to others.
Devil's Advocate - A designated role for challenging assumptions and arguments to improve group thinking.
Group Decision Making - Processes for teams to reach decisions that leverage collective intelligence while avoiding pitfalls.
Group Flow - A collective state where teams experience synchrony, optimal performance, and shared engagement.
Pair Programming - An agile software development technique where two programmers work together at one workstation, sharing a single screen and keyboard.
Scrum - An agile framework for managing complex work through iterative sprints and defined roles.
Scrumban - A hybrid agile approach combining Scrum's structure with Kanban's flow-based principles.
Shared Responsibility - Distributing ownership and accountability across team members rather than concentrating it.
Shared Understanding - Common knowledge, perspectives, and mental models that enable effective team collaboration.
Skunkworks - A small, autonomous team given freedom to work on breakthrough innovations outside normal structures.
Sprint Planning - A collaborative meeting where the team selects and plans work for the upcoming sprint.
Sprint Retrospective - A team meeting at the end of each sprint to reflect on process and identify improvements.
Story Points - A relative estimation unit measuring the effort and complexity of user stories.
Team Charter - A document defining a team's purpose, goals, roles, and operating principles.
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.
Working Agreements - Explicit team agreements about how members will work together and treat each other.

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