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“Collaboration Explained is a deeply pragmatic book that helps agile practitioners understand and manage complex organizational and team dynamics. As an agile coach, I’ve found the combination of straightforward advice and colorful anecdotes to be invaluable in guiding and focusing interactions with my teams. Jean’s wealth of experience is conveyed in a carefully struck balance of reference guides and prose, facilitating just-in-time learning in the agile spirit. All in all, a superb resource for building stronger teams that’s fit for agile veterans and neophytes alike.”
—Arlen Bankston, Lean Agile Practice Manager, CC Pace
“If Agile is the new ‘what,’ then surely Collaboration is the new ‘how.’ There are many things I really like about Jean’s new book. Right at the top of the list is that I don’t have to make lists of ideas for collaboration and facilitation anymore. Jean has it all. Not only does she have those great ideas for meetings, retrospectives, and team decision-making that I need to remember, but the startling new and thought-provoking ideas are there too. And the stories, the stories, the stories! The best way to transfer wisdom. Thanks, Jean!”
—Linda Rising, Independent Consultant
The Hands-On Guide to Effective Collaboration in Agile Projects
To succeed, an agile project demands outstanding collaboration among all its stakeholders. But great collaboration doesn’t happen by itself; it must be carefully planned and facilitated throughout the entire project lifecycle. Collaboration Explained is the first book to bring together proven, start-to-finish techniques for ensuring effective collaboration in any agile software project.
Since the early days of the agile movement, Jean Tabaka has been studying and promoting collaboration in agile environments. Drawing on her unsurpassed experience, she offers clear guidelines and easy-to-use collaboration templates for every significant project event: from iteration and release planning, through project chartering, all the way through post-project retrospectives.
Tabaka’s hands-on techniques are applicable to every leading agile methodology, from Extreme Programming and Scrum to Crystal Clear. Above all, they are practical: grounded in a powerful understanding of the technical, business, and human challenges you face as a project manager or development team member.
· Build collaborative software development cultures, leaders, and teams
· Prepare yourself to collaborate—and prepare your team
· Define clear roles for each participant in promoting collaboration
· Set your collaborative agenda
· Master tools for organizing collaboration more efficiently
· Run effective collaborative meetings—including brainstorming sessions
· Promote better small-group and pair-programming collaboration
· Get better information, and use it to make better decisions
· Use non-abusive conflict to drive positive outcomes
· Collaborate to estimate projects and schedules more accurately
· Strengthen collaboration across distributed, virtual teams
· Extend collaboration from individual projects to the entire development organization
- Sales Rank: #266911 in Books
- Published on: 2006-01-16
- Released on: 2006-01-06
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 9.00" h x 1.20" w x 7.00" l, 1.41 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 456 pages
From the Back Cover
“Collaboration Explained is a deeply pragmatic book that helps agile practitioners understand and manage complex organizational and team dynamics. As an agile coach, I’ve found the combination of straightforward advice and colorful anecdotes to be invaluable in guiding and focusing interactions with my teams. Jean’s wealth of experience is conveyed in a carefully struck balance of reference guides and prose, facilitating just-in-time learning in the agile spirit. All in all, a superb resource for building stronger teams that’s fit for agile veterans and neophytes alike.”
–Arlen Bankston, Lean Agile Practice Manager, CC Pace
“If Agile is the new ‘what,’ then surely Collaboration is the new ‘how.’ There are many things I really like about Jean’s new book. Right at the top of the list is that I don’t have to make lists of ideas for collaboration and facilitation anymore. Jean has it all. Not only does she have those great ideas for meetings, retrospectives, and team decision-making that I need to remember, but the startling new and thought-provoking ideas are there too. And the stories, the stories, the stories! The best way to transfer wisdom. Thanks, Jean!”
–Linda Rising, Independent Consultant
The Hands-On Guide to Effective Collaboration in Agile Projects
To succeed, an agile project demands outstanding collaboration among all its stakeholders. But great collaboration doesn’t happen by itself; it must be carefully planned and facilitated throughout the entire project lifecycle. Collaboration Explained is the first book to bring together proven, start-to-finish techniques for ensuring effective collaboration in any agile software project.
Since the early days of the agile movement, Jean Tabaka has been studying and promoting collaboration in agile environments. Drawing on her unsurpassed experience, she offers clear guidelines and easy-to-use collaboration templates for every significant project event: from iteration and release planning, through project chartering, all the way through post-project retrospectives.
Tabaka’s hands-on techniques are applicable to every leading agile methodology, from Extreme Programming and Scrum to Crystal Clear. Above all, they are practical: grounded in a powerful understanding of the technical, business, and human challenges you face as a project manager or development team member.
· Build collaborative software development cultures, leaders, and teams
· Prepare yourself to collaborate–and prepare your team
· Define clear roles for each participant in promoting collaboration
· Set your collaborative agenda
· Master tools for organizing collaboration more efficiently
· Run effective collaborative meetings–including brainstorming sessions
· Promote better small-group and pair-programming collaboration
· Get better information, and use it to make better decisions
· Use non-abusive conflict to drive positive outcomes
· Collaborate to estimate projects and schedules more accurately
· Strengthen collaboration across distributed, virtual teams
· Extend collaboration from individual projects to the entire development organization
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About the Author
Jean Tabaka is an Agile Coach with Rally Software Development, specializing in creating, coaching, and mentoring collaborative, agile software teams. Jean brings over 25 years of experience in software development to the agile plate in a variety of organizational contexts including internal IT departments, ISVs, government agencies, and consulting organizations. Having implemented both plan-driven and agile development approaches for Sybase, Siebel Systems, and Qwest, as well as a variety of smaller ventures, her work has spanned industries and continents. As an agile mentor, Jean coaches software teams through training and facilitation to adopt agile principles and practices using a hybrid of the leading agile methods. With a passion for collaboration practices through facilitation techniques, she guides organizations in creating high-performance teams. She is the co-author of Physical Database Design for Sybase SQL Server (Prentice Hall, 1995) and is a frequent lecturer and contributor on the topic of collaboration practices in agile teams. A Certified ScrumMaster, as well as Certified ScrumMaster Trainer, and Certified Professional Facilitator, she holds a Master of Arts from Michigan State University and a Master of Computer Science from Johns Hopkins University.
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Preface Preface A Path of Learning
When I started my career in IT back in the 1970s, I began as an intern for a JCL helpdesk that supported a team of analysts who expected their programs to run smoothly (enough) in the massive farm of IBM 3270s built for that purpose. I never met the analysts I supported; I never really knew the business they were supporting. I just knew that a stream of data from one system through tape drives to another system had not completed correctly (ABEND!) and I needed to restart the job or redirect the stream from box to box as needed.
The only "collaboration" I experienced was in the form of directions from my supervisor when I didn't know how to solve the problem. There were no team meetings, no team decisions (except about the smoking policy that encouraged cigarettes but banned cigars), and no sense of team ownership of success. Each of the other members of the "team" had their separate set of analysts they supported, their own stacks of punch card carriers, and their personal, safeguarded mag tapes they used to manage their work.
In subsequent jobs, I moved into other 3GL environments, still working largely without access to a customer or other developers. With regard to the development teams, the work was divided up by our manager who made decisions about what we should be doing, how it should be done, and when it should be completed. Our team meetings were weekly bug report meetings where our manager would prioritize what needed to be done and its due date. We passed work from one job title to another (analyst, to designer, to developer, to tester), and teamwork for me was largely restricted to one-on-one debugging sessions with another developer. But a change was beginning to unfold about how software development projects, their teams, and their managers could work more effectively.
I first dipped into the notion of a learning-oriented approach to software development via Wicked Problems, Righteous Solutions by Peter DeGrace and Leslie Hulet-Stahl (Prentice Hall, 1998). The book became my bible about what was wrong with phase-driven, waterfall approaches and what might be right about a more empirically motivated approach. My next epiphany came in the late 1990s with a visit to the UK where I learned of a new methodology being adopted in Europe: the Dynamic Systems Development Method, or DSDM. What was startling for me about this methodology at the time was its emphasis on timeboxes versus scope for software delivery. It turned my notion of software development methodology on its ear. Moreover, as documentation was de-emphasized, rapid effective face-to-face communication was explicitly built into the approach through its facilitated workshops.
At this point, I made a conscious decision to steer my methodology focus toward facilitation practices that I could apply to software development teams. Because I had seen too many examples of how teams can crumble in bad meeting contexts and in bad control environments, I wanted to learn ways to make all the various team collaborations more reliable, more frequent, faster, and more productive. I took classes in facilitation, read books on facilitation, and attended facilitation conferences. I became a certified professional facilitator, and I began to teach facilitation as well as apply it.
And I learned a few things: facilitation has a place in how we create teams and coax collaborative work from and for them. Additionally, I learned that facilitation is not about control or manipulation. Rather, it is about applying tools, techniques, and processes in support of teams eager to engage in high performance. Good facilitators listen and echo in a way that helps a team hear itself and apply its best wisdom. Project managers and software team leads with facilitative skills become leaders who can listen and echo as they lead teams in vision and success.
Today, I find myself in teams that create a common goal, work to communicate frequently, and make decisions based on their collective wisdom. The agile methodologies we now consult (Scrum, Extreme Programming, Crystal Clear, Feature Driven Development, and Lean Software Development) emphasize project success through disciplines of engineering and communications that can effectively respond to change. In these contexts, I recognize the stabilizing force of collaboration and communication as fundamental practices in project success. Projects need teams; teams need communication. And while communication comes in a variety of forms from one-on-one to very large groups, at the team level of three or more people making decisions and acting on them, communication relies on collaboration.
This book brings together my specific lessons about the importance of applying collaboration in teams. Specifically, it catalogues the practices of facilitation I have learned to use in order to liberate teams into a variety of information gathering and decision modes that promote high performance. I have come to rely on facilitation not as a manipulation or control technique, but rather as a way to encourage participatory decision making among teams of experts. For me, facilitation, more than any other leadership or team practice, has proven to be my greatest gift to teams in creating a vision for them and encouraging their best teamwork.
A number of colleagues have warned me about negative experiences they've endured where a facilitator has used his role in a meeting to manipulate and control the team. That is not my intent here. I believe in leaders who engage facilitatively in service to the team, not in control of it. I believe in teams who recognize the wisdom of a powerful leader and how such a leader's move through various decision approaches strengthens them. A good leader absorbs a rich set of tools in creating success with and for their teams. In this guidebook, I offer one subset of those tools, the facilitation tools.
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23 of 24 people found the following review helpful.
Helpful for all project leaders wishing to avoid a command-and-control style
By Michael Cohn
A challenge faced by any project leader is how to lead the team without resorting to a command-and-control management style. This book's essential premise is that the project leader can do this by fostering collaboration among team members. Jean Tabaka's Collaboration Explained is really two books in one. The first explains the benefits of collaborating and why project leaders need to foster collaboration among their teams if those teams are to perform at a high level.
The second, and by far longest, part of Collaboration Explained is a compendium of techniques that will foster team collaboration and will help the reader become a more collaborative leader. Any reader will finish this part having learned new techniques. Nominally this book is about team decision making and so most of the book is about the various decisions teams make and how the project leader can ensure that the team makes the best decision. Covered are decisions about project requirements, estimates, priorities, vision, resolving conflict and more. Tabaka provides both general purpose advice that can be used in many contexts as well as very specific advice for each of the contexts or meetings she describes.
This book is well-placed in a series devoted to agile software development. However, it is important to point out that the techniques covered here will be applicable to any team with any development process. Any project leader who wants to help his or her team work better together will benefit from reading this book.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful.
can use much of book's advice in any software development process
By W Boudville
Tabaka's book is part of an ongoing series on the use of the Agile software development process. It deals with a key idea of involving participants to the fullest extent. The word collaboration is used to describe this idea. The book is directed at someone who has to manage this process. Someone in a supervisory capacity. Though of course the book could be usefully read by anyone else involved.
The book has many suggestions. About such tasks as conducting status meetings during the project. Or how to distinguish between a good meeting and a bad meeting. Or supervising small group work. The advice is entirely about the human element. And not about any specific software tools or languages. If you are a supervisor from a programming background, it could be the human element aspects that you are most in need of advice about.
Naturally, the text also has numerous instances of how to deal with what it calls Agile Practices. Yet you might not need to adhere to the latter to still derive gain from the book. There is no need to buy into some or indeed any of the Agile Practices. Much of the book has useful advice (like the example above of the good and bad meetings) that is germane to whatever overarching development process you already have in place. Er, you do have one in place, don't you?
10 of 12 people found the following review helpful.
Collaboration for everyone
By Lisa Crispin
I'm not a manager or project leader or ScrumMaster, I'm just a tester on a development team using Scrum. So I started reading it with a little trepidation that it wouldn't really apply to my day-to-day work, or that I wouldn't really be able to learn the facilitation skills.
The book really opened my eyes to the fact that my team needs to collaborate with our business folks a whole lot more. It's something we know intellectually, but don't effectively do on a day-to-day basis. Ideas from the book are helping me change this. I'm also learning to be more effective in any kind of meeting, even if I'm not leading it. The book is full of examples from the author's personal experience. I learn best by examples, so this really helped me and got me charged up about the whole thing.
There's a great reference section where you can look up whatever meeting you need to plan and get a wealth of ideas. I'm looking forward to trying some of these out in our next sprint review! If you have any difficulties communicating with those inside or outside your team, or meetings are driving you crazy, you're going to find a gold mine in this book.
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