de marco - peopleware

In no time at all, we came up with lots of sure-fire ways to inhibit the formation of teams and disrupt project sociology. These measures, taken together, constitute a strategy we dubbed teamicide. Our short list of teamicide techniques is presented below:

defensive management
bureaucracy
physical separation
fragmentation of people’s time
quality reduction of the product
phony deadlines
clique control

Some of these techniques will look awfully familiar. They are things that companies do all the time.