<ul><li>Healthy teams don't let problems fester and close loops on open questions.</li><li>Integrating perspectives, code, insights, beliefs, etc., is crucial to foster shared understanding.</li><li>Address dissonance head-on and limit the number of open threads on the team.</li><li>Break big tasks into smaller meaningful steps and work small.</li><li>Teams must constantly ask if they are doing the highest-leverage work and course-correct quickly if not.</li><li>The concept of migration, or revisiting open threads, is crucial in accomplishing important work and becoming self-aware.</li><li>When a team fails to address dissonance, goal specificity, updates, and critical metrics suffer.</li><li>As companies grow, bringing up disconfirming information or throwing plans into doubt becomes harder.</li><li>Sometimes the frequency of change can cause even good teams to burnout, not just the accumulation of baggage.</li><li>Team processes should work for you, so identify where they run you, and invest time in reducing dissonance.</li></ul>

TBM 294: Close the Loop. Stop the Drift

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