Atlas

I love this thread because it advocates two of my strongest beliefs - interpersonal relationships are important, and most of the time, extensive process and structure are a band-aid over a different underlying issue.
"If your relationships were those things, you wouldn't need much method. And if your relationships aren't, structures, artifacts, rules, procedures, all of these things are usually neutral or even net-negative in impact on those relationships."
"You will not get optimum software development by emphasizing hierarchical command and control"
"All happy software engineering teams are alike"
"They (current systems) focus their attention and their reasoning almost entirely around "process": structure, artifacts, rules, forms, procedures"