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How to Get Your IT Teams to Collaborate Effectively

By Dennis McCafferty on 2011-11-14


Whether you're a CIO or an IT employee, Agile methods can help your team innovate and excel in a world in which data warehousing, business intelligence and analytics are becoming a more important part of the IT ecosystem. In the book, Agile Analytics: A Value-Driven Approach to Business Intelligence and Data Warehousing (Addison-Wesley Professional), author Ken Collier demonstrates how Agile thinking can fuel greater successes for teams that manage analytics development, using widely diverse skill sets to support the oversight of quickly growing data inventories. Team collaboration is essential to the process of devising winning strategies and solutions. Collier outlines best practices for effective team collaboration in his book, and these practices can be applied beyond the world of business intelligence and data warehousing. They can be applied to any IT project that requires team members working together and being creative. Collier is founder/president of KWC Technologies Inc., and is a senior consultant with the Cutter Consortium in the agile development/business intelligence practice areas. For more about the book, click here.

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Never use the word “meeting”.


Meetings are considered useless time-consumers.
A “collaboration session” is dynamic,
interactive and purpose-driven.

Define precise goals.


Less ambiguity is better. For example: “ ...to
develop a solution strategy to streamline vendor
-invoicing practices.”

Don’t get hung up on the hour.


Do you need an
hour? Think of how
to foster productive
collaboration in 15
minutes instead.

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Think less – not more – participants.


It’s more important to have
the right people in the
room than a glut of those
who can’t make valuable
contributions.

Unplug. Detatch. Discuss.


Any collaborative exchange
is enhanced when laptops
and smartphones are
banned.

Nix the agenda.


Reaching the goal IS the agenda. Imposing structure
diminishes ability to collaborate.

Collaborate face-to-face.


Even if that face is on
a computer screen,
expressions and
gestures often speak as tellingly as words.

End with firm decisions.


But decide upon something today no matter what,
even if new information could change that tomorrow.

Expect chaos.


Agile implementation is disruptive
by nature.
Anticipate and adapt to initial
discomfort/resistance until the
disruption becomes routine.

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