What can perverse incentives teach us about software development? Join Squirrel and Jeffrey for a discussion on the importance of personal responsibility and the potential benefits of 'blameful' postmortems in driving accountability and improvement within organisations, in this episode of Troubleshooting Agile.


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- Tal's article: https://talyarkoni.org/blog/2018/10/02/no-its-not-the-incentives-its-you/ 
- Blameless Postmortems: https://openpracticelibrary.com/practice/blameless-postmortem/ 
- Perverse Incentives: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perverse_incentive 


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