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07/24/2004: "Making good teams even better"

In my travels I run into a number of people in software who enjoy telling me stories about what they see in the industry. Recently a colleague told me about a team at his company who had called in a trainer to teach them about test-first programming and incremental design. When I asked about the trouble the team was in, he replied, "No trouble. They were already the most productive software team in the company. They just decided that they could benefit from going even faster."

Even productive teams benefit from learning new practices, and from practice itself.