ANTIPATTERN: ALIGN ME
An especially pernicious antipattern, AlignMe, may make an appearance during Alignment. Applying the nostrums described in Chapter Nine will usually control or eliminate AlignMe, but identifying it in real time can prove tricky. Even when you think you have identified it, you may not feel certain.[7]
[7] We've observed this antipattern to some degree on every team alignment with which we've been involved. Unfortunately, the evidence of AlignMe generally becomes available to those involved only when the greater portion of time has been misspent already. The whole thing appears much clearer in retrospect
AlignMe occurs when a team member, consciously or not, avoids concluding a PersonalAlignment. A number of avoidance strategies ...
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