Ringelmann effect and Social Loafing

Ringelmann Effect: As team size increases beyond certain point, individual productivity is seen to diminish. This leads to loss of motivation, and coordination problems.

Social Loafing: The reduction of individual effort exerted when people work in groups compared to when they work alone is called Social Loafing.

Student Syndrome and Parkinson's Law - Procrastinate and Delay the task, Expand work

Culture, habit and Agile Transformation

• 40% of decisions people make everyday are not decisions, but habits. (Dr. Wendy Woods).
• Key to changing habits is not willpower, rather it is changing environment.
• Change requires organizational re-learning -- unlearning and learning everything new

Scrum retrospectives - focus on what?

Focus on improving desirable outcomes, not on playing by its rules. Don't focus on how you can improve the implementation of scrum, rather focus on the value delivery. 

Kubler-Ross Model adapted to Agile Transformation

Reference: Jonathan Smart on Medium.com

The Kubler-Ross Curve originated from psychiatrist Elisabeth Kubler-Ross’s work on grief, published in 1969. It has been found to be valid in the majority of situations relating to change and we have repeatedly observed this pattern to hold true via feedback from colleague surveys.