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Thinkie: Aligning Incentive

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Kent Beck
Sep 18, 2025
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Pattern: people are working at cross purposes.

Transformation: rather than tell people what to do to work together, give them an incentive that will indirectly require collaboration.

WARNING! Any time I say “incentive”, some readers read, “Money! 💰!!!” Nope. Nope-ity nope. Yes, money is an incentive, but it is one of the most dangerous, most subject to G…

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