Eight Principles of Effective Collaboration
Collaborate and crush
Too often professional teams jumping into a challenging project immediately choose a divide-and-conquer approach instead of a collaborate and crush power move. Why?
Collaboration is an energizing solution creator when adopted effectively. Collaboration is a multiplier that creates more than what one person could create themselves. Collaboration is a mentoring machine that spreads knowledge and insight throughout a team while delivering quality product on time and under budget.
Yet, in my 30+ years as an active software development professional in various roles the “collaboration first” mindset is rare to find in the wild. It’s only in the last few years that I’ve adopted it myself.
Let’s discuss eight important principles that align talents sustainably to generate creative flow-state energy while lowering costs and increasing productivity.
None of these principles put anyone’s professional livelihood at risk. The risk is in not adopting these principles and falling behind those that do.
