This team was a true team, not a group [2]. The team chose its own practices, which is part of what made it so successful. But a big part of what made this team successful was the trust the team members had for each other.

Although I was the project manager, the team trusted me differently than they did each other. They were happy for me to make suggestions about what they could do, but they never blindly took my suggestions. They always discussed each idea thoroughly. If they didn't reject the idea, they adapted the idea so that it would work for them.