Building trust for team - http://cocreatr.typepad.com/everyone_is_a_beginner_or/2012/02/community-of-practice-and-trust-building.html One nice article about teamwork: Directing (hi directive + lo supportive, for "enthusiastic beginners") Supporting (hi directive + hi supportive, for "disillusioned learners") Coaching (lo directive + hi supportive, for "reluctant contributors") Delegating (lo directive + lo supportive, for "peak performers") http://www.cmcrossroads.com/ubbthreads/showflat.php?Cat=&Number=64809 Is it a people problem or process problem - http://blog.nayima.be/2006/01/21/people-problem-or-process-problem/ importance of teamwork - http://www.butunclebob.com/ArticleS.MichaelFeathers.ProgrammingOnYourOwn 5 Dysfunctions of a Team - http://www.anticlue.net/archives/000279.htm A Leaner Start: Reducing Team Setup Times - http://www.infoq.com/articles/pat-kua-onboarding-new , I think article "letting-go" is really insightful - http://www.thekua.com/atwork/2007/09/24/onboarding-strategy-letting-go A good explanation of what is courage, and the result of didn't have courage. It also mention a bit of how to bulit courage within the team, but not much about it - http://www.xprogramming.com/xpmag/NotXP.htm A potential issue of focus too much on people, rely on few heros - http://jchyip.blogspot.com/2007/12/people-over-process-misses-point.html Our agile process requires people to spend the effort to listen and talk to each other, working closely. You have to be a people person to like it. It doesn't suit sociopaths. Accidently hiring a sociopath is going to make XP impossible. Trust me, I know. To me this is XP's fundamental weakness. http://jchyip.blogspot.com/2007/12/extreme-programmings-fundamental.html What important is team but not idea - http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2010/01/cultivate-teams-not-ideas.html http://www.infoq.com/news/2011/11/enable-high-performance-teams http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Co-Making-Great-Products A Measure of Your Team’s Health: How You Treat Your “Idiot” - http://quickbase.intuit.com/blog/2014/06/02/a-measure-of-your-teams-health-how-you-treat-your-idiot/ http://www.inside.com.tw/2014/06/20/a-measure-of-your-teams-health-how-you-treat-your-idiot https://www.infoq.com/news/2018/05/culture-safety-ei-teams How to Create a Great Team Culture (and Why It Matters) - https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?ref=rss&id=3323993 https://noidea.dog/glue Psychological Safety - https://www.buildsoftwarebetter.org/creating-a-mentally-healthy-environment-for-developers https://hbr.org/2017/08/high-performing-teams-need-psychological-safety-heres-how-to-create-it ‘As long as everyone got a chance to talk, the team did well. But if only one person or a small group spoke all the time, the collective intelligence declined.’ - https://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/28/magazine/what-google-learned-from-its-quest-to-build-the-perfect-team.html The secret ingredient to successful team building is not what you think - https://www.fastcompany.com/91045214/the-secret-ingredient-to-successful-team-building-is-not-what-you-think