Check out The Agile Team as Organism: Part 1 by Jan Beaver, PhD, CST. Here is an excerpt:
In his brilliant book Agile Software Development (2002)[1], Alistair Cockburn describes Agile Teams as ecosystems. He talks about how Teams create their own internal ecosystem, with certain Team members frequently having a disproportionate influence on how the Team develops and, more…
The full article is available here.