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dang, now where did I leave off?
I'll pick it back up again with (9):
(9) Organization tolerance to ambiguity, uncertainty and flux affects the possibility of using more productive techniques. The most productive techniques rely on parallel development, with embedded ambiguity, uncertainty and flux. However, not all people or organizations can tolerate high levels of those. To the extent they cannot handle them, they cannot use those techniques. This presents an upper limit to an organization’s productivity.
from https://web.archive.org/web/20170909062232/http://alistair.cockburn.us/get/3598
@totheralistair At the beginning, organizations can tolerate the 'brights'. These are people, like programmers that are 10 times more productive than the average. They fade at 40. As the place gets 'old company disease, the brights are thrown out.