Collaboration is critical to high performance teams and maintaining high performance is important for sustaining effective collaboration. Has collaboration become one of those words that has lost meaning because it’s being used too much? Is all work collaboration? In the agile world it sounds like collaboration is ubiquitous. But are we actually collaborating?
Tag: collaboration
Monday, 15 August 2011
Tuesday, 7 April 2009
What is it about technical discussions and weeds?
Posted by Simon Baker
It's tough to prevent technical discussions getting lost in the weeds. Actually, it's the people involved who get lost in the weeds.
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Wednesday, 20 February 2008
Collaborate more to achieve hustle
Posted by Simon Baker
Our team has been together now for about 15 weeks and things are going well. We've got a sustainable pace that's delivering value every week, our Product Owner and Product Sponsor are both happy, and everyone is having fun. So what's bugging me? 2 things.
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Monday, 23 April 2007
Self-organisation again
Posted by Simon Baker
Read Jeremy Miller 's post: Self Organizing Teams are Superior to Command n' Control Teams . One of the things he says is:
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Saturday, 21 April 2007
Self-organisation
Posted by Simon Baker
If an army marching in lockstep to tightly arranged military music is a metaphor for yesterday's workplace, the workplace of the future will be more like a jazz ensemble where musicians improvise creatively around an agreed key, melody, and tempo.
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Thursday, 13 April 2006
Consensus decision making
Posted by Simon Baker
A unanimous agreement reached by a team is better than a decision made by any individual team member because it embodies an idea that's shared and supported by each team member and provides a solid impetus for action. Each team member has a veto because each team member needs to agree for unanimity. A team committed to reaching unanimous agreement continue the discussion until they arrive at a solution that takes all the team member's needs into account.
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Monday, 30 May 2005
Slicing the cake
Posted by Simon Baker
There are two techniques for disaggregating stories into tasks. The first slices a story vertically and the second, horizontally. I favor vertical slicing because the development approach enables the story to evolve, demonstrably in front of the customer.
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