Ch 2 questions Flashcards
What are the key characteristics of collaboration?
there are two terms to distinguish between, cooperation and collaboration.
cooperation is a group of people working together, all doing the same type of work, to accomplish a job. (a group of four painters, each painting a different wall in the same room, are working cooperatively.
Collaboration is a group of people working together to achieve a common goal via a process of feedback and iteration.
using iteration and feedback, the group’s result can be better than what any single individual can produce alone. This is possible because different group members provide different perspectives.
What are three criteria for successful collaboration?
- Successful outcomes
- growth in team capability
- meaningful and satisfying experience
What are the four primary purposes of collaboration?
- become informed
- make decisions
- solve problems
- manage projects
What are the components and functions of a collaboration information system?
an information system that supports collaboration, the system needs to support iteration and feedback among team members. 5 components: 1. project data 2. project metadata 3. collaboration tool
How can you use collaboration tools to improve team communication?
whiteboard, online workspaces.
with such a whiteboard, team members can type, write, and draw simulataneously, which enables more ideas to be proposed in a given period of time than when team members must wait in sequence to express ideas verbally..
how can you use collaboration tools to share content?
- Shared file servers make it possible to share content
- shared content with version management- track changes to documents and provide features and functions to accommodate concurrent work.
(Google docs, Windows Live Skydrive)
Version control:
1. user activity limited by permissions
2. document checkout
3. version histories
4. workflow control
