Collaboration: the action of working with someone to produce or create something. An essential skill for high performance agile and scrum teams.
The Challenge In the pursuit of delivering business value, there is no shortage of obstacles to overcome to achieving high levels of trust, good communication, and the ability to have productive conflict on agile scrum or kanban teams. Those impediments have the potential to restrict continuous improvement and get in the way of …
I don’t recall exactly where I read this: Teamwork is a worthy goal. And there is no disputing that it is uniquely powerful – enabling groups of people to achieve more collectively than they could have ever imagined doing apart. However, the demands of real teamwork cannot be underestimated. On high performance …
High Performance Defined From Wikipedia: A high-performance team (HPT) can be defined as a group of people with specific roles and complementary talents and skills, aligned with and committed to a common purpose, who consistently show high levels of collaboration and innovation, that produce superior results. Characteristics of an HPT …
I heard a good joke not too long ago: How do you tell the difference between introverted and extroverted engineers? The extroverts stare at YOUR shoes! Joking aside, we all work with both introverts and extroverts in our organizations and on our development teams. Creating an environment that helps both types shine …
tl;dr:
No one says, “No, but…”
Only, “Yes, and…”
Instead of subtracting… plussing.
