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It sounds like it could be from the book Finite and Infinite Games [amazon.com].
I think Alistair Cockburn mentions that book in Agile Software Development: The Cooperative Game [amazon.com]. He writes about similar things in The end of software engineering and the start of economic-cooperative gaming [cockburn.us].
All recommended reads.