Pair to improve flow
Work together on the same task improves development I worked the last week with another developer on a project after some funding was approved. We… Read More »Pair to improve flow
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Talk and listen to people
Development without talking is painfully slow. Dave Farley recently asked on LinkedIn “What’s the one development practice you’ve seen make the biggest impact on a… Read More »Talk and listen to people
Collaboration works better when we’re humble
People collaborate better when they recognise their faults. Working on your own is one way to develop an application. This will always take longer than… Read More »Collaboration works better when we’re humble
Working in the open eases collaboration
It is easier to collaborate when people know what other team members are doing. Bob is on a team. He’s busy working on his tasks.… Read More »Working in the open eases collaboration
Guide your software engineering teams
Provide rules to guide student teams in their work. Whenever teaching software engineering students that are formed into teams I find various challenges that come… Read More »Guide your software engineering teams
Use Collaboration Phases with Your Team
The collaboration phases also provide rules for your work as a team We can help people make better choices in their teams, if we guide… Read More »Use Collaboration Phases with Your Team
Learning to collaborate is learning to be employable
We help our software engineering students by helping them learn to collaborate effectively. A lot of what we teach computing science students is domain knowledge,… Read More »Learning to collaborate is learning to be employable
Convince students to pair and mob in their teams
The work is easier when shared with others than done on your own. I find it frustrating when you can see a team could be… Read More »Convince students to pair and mob in their teams
Teamwork should be multiplicative not additive
Teach students how to level up their team collaboration to achieve more A few months ago Cliff Hazel posted a question on LinkedIn that speculated… Read More »Teamwork should be multiplicative not additive
We should aim to create diverse student teams in software engineering
Diverse teams are more successful than homogenous ones An extreme case of when a homogenous group got it right was the Cuban Missile Crisis. We’re… Read More »We should aim to create diverse student teams in software engineering