Forming. Storming. Norming. And the other one… the lesser known history of Tuckman’s team model

Mark Ridley
13 min readNov 29, 2023
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Forming. Storming. Norming. Performing. You may well have heard these stages of group maturity before, but do you know where the theory came from?

This article is inspired by the Teamcraft podcast episode, available wherever you get your pods.

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Mark Ridley

Technologist, lean evangelist, chaos monkey and Chief Technology Prevention Officer. Loves good coffee, hanging around on ropes and driving about in cars