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The Advent of Agile
capability to help ensure that things being learned on one sub-team are
passed around and do not have to be relearned by the other teams.
Learn
The final “phase” terminates a set of collaboration cycles and its job is
to intentionally capture what has been learned, both “positively” and “neg-
atively” (i.e., what worked and what did not) in the previous cycles. As sim-
ple as this seems, it is a critical element to effective teams. It is well known
that adults learn more from mistakes than from successes. Generally, if
adults tackle something and are successful the first time out it is usually
due to (1) skill and capability (we knew how to do it already or we very
quickly figured out what to do, in which case we probably did not ...