In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor in the Culture & Methods area, spoke to Richard Kasperowski at the QCon San Francisco conference.\n\nWhy listen to this podcast:\n\n - Agile is not new, and the ideas help organisations focus on building the right thing and building it right\n - High performing teams have some specific characteristics which can be measured\n - Over 200 different things have been identified as \u201cthe one thing\u201d needed for high performance\n - All the research shows that the social/cultural factors are more important than technical skills for high performance\n - The behaviour patterns of the Core Protocols seem to cause high performing teams\n - To work well as a high performing team, the members must be able to connect with each other effectively\n\nMore on this: Quick scan our curated show notes on InfoQ http://bit.ly/2mkjFtM\n\nYou can also subscribe to the InfoQ newsletter to receive weekly updates on the hottest topics from professional software development. bit.ly/24x3IVq\n\nSubscribe: www.youtube.com/infoq\nLike InfoQ on Facebook: bit.ly/2jmlyG8\nFollow on Twitter: twitter.com/InfoQ\nFollow on LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/infoq\nWant to see extented shownotes? Check the landing page on InfoQ: http://bit.ly/2mkjFtM