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the part of teamwork where everyone stops fighting and starts pretending they agreed all along.
means the stage in group development where roles, rules, and rhythm settle after initial friction, so the team can actually get work done.
from coined by psychologist bruce tuckman in 1965 as the third stage of his forming, storming, norming, performing model of group development.
comes afterstorming, the conflict phase everyone dreads
added latertuckman added adjourning as a fifth stage in 1977
often skippedremote teams can loop back to storming repeatedly
for instance
agile sprint teams — retros exist partly to force norming every two weeks
jury deliberations — twelve strangers norming under a deadline to reach one verdict
nasa mission control — decades of drills built norms so tight astronauts trust silence