Category: Collaboration

Collaboration: the action of working with someone to produce or create something. An essential skill for high performance agile and scrum teams.

Slowing Down to Speed Up – Effective Asynchronous Communication for Teams

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After many years of being part of 100% collocated teams, I’ve returned to working with 100% distributed, virtual, or remote teams. To remain effective, high-performing distributed teams rely on a number of important factors such as trust, ownership, a focus on results, and effective communication to get stuff done.

Helping Team Members Stretch Their Communication Muscles: Kantor Four Player Model

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It takes many different mindsets and behaviors to make a team hum. I am appreciating a view of collaborative behaviors developed by David Kantor (as part of his work on Structural Dynamics), and am finding it useful as a way to hold up a mirror to a team that is interested in understanding and improving their communication. 

Trust, Ownership, and Vision: Necessary Conditions for Great Team Performance

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Three rivers – Trust, Ownership, and Vision – flow and converge into a confluence that helps create the necessary conditions for high performance, self-managing teams. Teams that adapt quickly to what their customers want. Teams that deliver great business value at a sustainable pace. Teams that are filled with happy people. …