What 3 things does Collaboration refer to?
- Scrum Core Team working together
- Interface with stakeholders
- Create/validate deliverables of projects
Cooperation
When the work product consists of the SUM of work efforts of many people on a team.
Collaboration (In contrast to Cooperation)
When a team works together to play off each other’s inputs to produce something greater.
What are 3 Core Dimensions of Collaborative work?
- Awareness
- Articulation
- Appropriation
What is Awareness?
Individuals working together need to be aware of each other’s work
What is Articulation?
Dividing work into units, distribute those units among team members.
What is Appropriation?
Refers to adapting tech to one’s own situation
Benefits of Collaboration in Scrum projects
- Agile Manifesto: Stresses customer collaboration over contract negoiation
- Scrum framework adopts an approach in which the Scrum core team collaborate with each other & stakeholders
Collaboration Benefits
- Changes due to bad clasified requirements is minimized
- Risks are identified & dealt with efficiently
- True potential of team is realized
- Continuous improvement is ensured through learned lessons
Importance of Colocation in Collaboration
- High bandwidth communication is needed
- Team members should be colocated
- Colocation allows both formal and informal interaction between team members
Benefits of Colocation
- Questions get answered quickly
- Problems are fixed on the spot
- Less friction occurs between interactions
- Trust is gained & given more quickly
Collaboration Tools for Colocated Teams
- Face-to-face interactions
- Decision rooms or War rooms
- Scrumboards
- Wall Displays
- Shared tables
Although Colocated teams are preferred
Scrum team may be distributed
What locations may Scrum teams be working from?
- Different cities
- Different countries
- Remote/From home
What should Collab Scrum project tools be able to do?
- Define all Scrum roles
- Provide messaging/functionality for team members to interact
Create and work through what vital Scrum Artifacts?
- Prioritized Backlog
- Sprint Backlog
- Scrumboard
