Software Design: Tidy First?

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Pattern: People are working so as to sabotage progress towards a desired outcome.

Transformation: Look at their incentives from their perspective. Change the incentives. The behavior will follow. (Unless you screw up the incentives, which is easy to do.)

Sales people are poaching sales from other regions, resulting in lower overall sales for the company. …

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