Collaboration Explained

Author : Jean Tabaka
Publisher : Pearson Education
Page : 491 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2006-01-06
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780321630056

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Collaboration Explained by Jean Tabaka Pdf

“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

Author : Martin Mühlenbrock
Publisher : IOS Press
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Computers
ISBN : 1586031759

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Action Based Collaboration Analysis for Group Learning by Martin Mühlenbrock Pdf

Shared-workspace systems with structured graphical representations allow for the free user interaction and the joint construction of problem solutions for potentially open-ended tasks. However, group modelling in shared workspaces has to take on a process-orientated perspective due to the reduced system control in shared workspaces. This text is defined as the monitoring of user actions and the abstraction and interpretation of the raw data in the context of the group interaction and the problem representation. Formally based on plan recognition and the situation calculus, an approach has been developed that incorporates an operational hierarchy for generally modelling activities. The system performs an automatic inline analysis of group interactions and the results are visualized in different forms to give feedback and stimulating self-reflection.

Author : Jason Ball
Publisher : Cisco Press
Page : 1637 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2020-08-14
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780136160434

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CCNP and CCIE Collaboration Core CLCOR 350-801 Official Cert Guide by Jason Ball Pdf

Trust the best-selling Official Cert Guide series from Cisco Press to help you learn, prepare, and practice for exam success. They are built with the objective of providing assessment, review, and practice to help ensure you are fully prepared for your certification exam. * Master Cisco CCNP/CCIE CLCOR exam topics * Assess your knowledge with chapter-opening quizzes * Review key concepts with exam preparation tasks This is the eBook edition of the CCNP and CCIE Collaboration Core CLCOR 350-801 Official Cert Guide. This eBook does not include access to the Pearson Test Prep practice exams that comes with the print edition. CCNP and CCIE Collaboration Core CLCOR 350-801 Official Cert Guide presents you with an organized test preparation routine through the use of proven series elements and techniques. “Do I Know This Already?” quizzes open each chapter and enable you to decide how much time you need to spend on each section. Exam topic lists make referencing easy. Chapter-ending Exam Preparation Tasks help you drill on key concepts you must know thoroughly. CCNP and CCIE Collaboration Core CLCOR 350-801 Official Cert Guide focuses specifically on the objectives for the Cisco CCNP/CCIE CLCOR 350-801 exam. Collaboration expert Jason Ball shares preparation hints and test-taking tips, helping you identify areas of weakness and improve both your conceptual knowledge and hands-on skills. Material is presented in a concise manner, focusing on increasing your understanding and retention of exam topics. This complete study package includes * A test-preparation routine proven to help you pass the exams * Do I Know This Already? quizzes, which enable you to decide how much time you need to spend on each section * Chapter-ending Key Topic tables, which help you drill on key concepts you must know thoroughly * Practice exercises that help you enhance your knowledge * More than 60 minutes of video mentoring from the author * An online interactive Flash Cards application to help you drill on Key Terms by chapter * A final preparation chapter, which guides you through tools and resources to help you craft your review and test-taking strategies * Study plan suggestions and templates to help you organize and optimize your study time Well regarded for its level of detail, assessment features, and challenging review questions and exercises, this official study guide helps you master the concepts and techniques that ensure your exam success. The official study guide helps you master all the topics on the CCNP/CCIE Collaboration Core CLCOR 350-801 exam, including * Infrastructure and Design * Protocols, Codecs, and Endpoints * Cisco IOS XE Gateway and Media Resources * Call Control * QoS * Collaboration Applications

Author : Jennifer Madden
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2017-08-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781315468594

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Inter-Organizational Collaboration by Design by Jennifer Madden Pdf

Although difficult, complicated, and sometimes discouraging, collaboration is recognized as a viable approach for addressing uncertain, complex and wicked problems. Collaborations can attract resources, increase efficiency, and facilitate visions of mutual benefit that can ignite common desires of partners to work across and within sectors. An important question remains: How to enable successful collaboration? Inter-Organizational Collaboration by Design examines how these types of collaborations can overcome barriers to innovate and rejuvenate communities outlining the factors and antecedents that influence successful collaboration. The book proposes a theoretical perspective for collaborators to adopt design science (a solution finding approach utilizing end-user-centered research, prototyping, and collective creativity to strengthen individuals, teams, and organizations), the language of designers, and a design attitude as an empirically informed pathway for better managing the complexities inherent in collaboration. Through an integrated framework, evidence-based tools and strategies for building successful collaboration is articulated where successful collaboration performance facilitates innovation and rejuvenation. This volume will be essential reading for academics, researchers, leaders and managers in nonprofit, private, and government sectors interested in building better collaborations.

Author : Gordon Andrews,Wilson J. Warren,James Cousins
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 135 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2015-10-08
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781317859420

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Collaboration and the Future of Education by Gordon Andrews,Wilson J. Warren,James Cousins Pdf

Current educational reforms have given rise to various types of "educational Taylorism," which encourage the creation of efficiency models in pursuit of a unified way to teach. In history education curricula, this has been introduced through scripted textbook-based programs such as Teacher Curriculum Institute’s History Alive! and completely online curricula. They include the jargon of authentic methods, such as primary sources, cooperative learning, differentiated instruction, and access to technology; yet the craft of teaching is removed, and an experience that should be marked by discovery and reflection is replaced with comparatively empty processes. This volume provides systematic models and examples of ways that history teachers can compete with and effectively halt this transformation. The alternatives the authors present are based on collaborative models that address the art of teaching for pre-service and practicing secondary history teachers as well as collegiate history educators. Relying on original research, and a maturing body of secondary literature on historical thinking, this book illuminates how collaboration can create real historical learning.

Author : National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine,Health and Medicine Division,Board on Health Sciences Policy,Standing Committee on Health Threats and Workforce Resilience
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 111 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2018-01-29
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780309451680

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Enhancing BioWatch Capabilities Through Technology and Collaboration by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine,Health and Medicine Division,Board on Health Sciences Policy,Standing Committee on Health Threats and Workforce Resilience Pdf

The Department of Homeland Security's (DHS's) BioWatch program aims to provide an early indication of an aerosolized biological weapon attack. The first generation of BioWatch air samplers were deployed in 2003. The current version of this technology, referred to as Generation 2 (Gen-2), uses daily manual collection and testing of air filters from each monitor, a process that can take 12 to 36 hours to detect the presence of biological pathogens. Until April 2014, DHS pursued a next-generation autonomous detection technology that aimed to shorten the time from sample collection to detection to less than 6 hours, reduce the cost of analysis, and increase the number of detectable biological pathogens. Because of concerns about the cost and effectiveness of the proposed Generation 3 system (Gen-3), DHS cancelled its acquisition plans for the next-generation surveillance system. In response to the cancellation announcement, Congress asked the Government Accountability Office (GAO) to conduct a review of the program and the proposed system enhancements that would have been incorporated in BioWatch Gen-3. However, Mike Walter, BioWatch Program manager, Office of Health Affairs, DHS, said that DHS did not agree with all of GAO's characterizations of the BioWatch program efforts described in this review. In response to this, DHS requested that the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine conduct a workshop to further explore the findings of the 2015 GAO report and discuss the impact these findings may have with regard to the future development of the technical capabilities of the BioWatch program. Workshop participants also discussed existing and possible collaborations between BioWatch, public health laboratories, and other stakeholders that could contribute to the enhancement of biosurveillance capabilities at the federal, state, and local levels. This publication summarizes the presentations and discussions from the workshop.

Author : Frank Frössler
Publisher : Cuvillier Verlag
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Business communication
ISBN : 9783867276788

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A Practice Theoretical Analysis of Real Time Collaboration Technology: Skype and Sametime in Software Development Projects by Frank Frössler Pdf

Author : Bjorn E. Munkvold
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781447100737

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Implementing Collaboration Technologies in Industry by Bjorn E. Munkvold Pdf

This book provides practitioners with detailed experiences from industry on the implementation and use of collaboration technologies. Despite the increasing range of applications available - such as video and desktop conferencing systems, workflow management systems and on-line meeting schedulers - there is still little formalized knowledge on how to implement them to maximum effect. This book aims to fill that gap by looking at all the issues from the viewpoint of the implementation team, and focuses on strategies for overcoming various obstacles and measures which can be taken to enable effective use.

Author : Jack van't Wout,Maarten Waage,Herman Hartman,Max Stahlecker,Aaldert Hofman
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2010-06-17
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783642115189

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The Integrated Architecture Framework Explained by Jack van't Wout,Maarten Waage,Herman Hartman,Max Stahlecker,Aaldert Hofman Pdf

This book captures and communicates the wealth of architecture experience Capgemini has gathered as a member of The Open Group – a vendor- and technology-neutral consortium formed by major industry players – in developing, deploying, and using its “Integrated Architecture Framework” (IAF) since its origination in 1993. Today, many elements of IAF have been incorporated into the new version 9 of TOGAF, the related Open Group standard. The authors, all working on and with IAF for many years, here provide a full reference to IAF and a guide on how to apply it. In addition, they describe in detail the relations between IAF and the architecture standards TOGAF and Archimate and other development or process frameworks like ITIL, CMMI, and RUP. Their presentation is targeted at architects, project managers, and process analysts who have either considered or are already working with IAF – they will find many roadmaps, case studies, checklists, and tips and advice for their daily work.

Author : Elizabeth Harrin
Publisher : Project Management Institute
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2016-04-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781628251456

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Collaboration Tools for Project Managers by Elizabeth Harrin Pdf

In Collaboration Tools for Project Managers, Elizabeth Harrin builds upon her 2010 book, Social Media for Project Managers, by providing the latest information, success stories, and an easy-to-follow guide to implementing online collaboration tools and helping to overcome obstacles. In order to communicate faster, work virtually with people across the globe, and get better business results, project teams should explore how online collaboration tools can deliver project success and improve business value.

Author : Dumova, Tatyana,Fiordo, Richard
Publisher : IGI Global
Page : 938 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2009-07-31
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781605663692

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Handbook of Research on Social Interaction Technologies and Collaboration Software: Concepts and Trends by Dumova, Tatyana,Fiordo, Richard Pdf

"This book explores the origin, structure, purpose, and function of socially interactive technologies known as social software"--Provided by publisher.

Author : Joël Thibert
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2016-04-22
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317125471

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Governing Urban Regions Through Collaboration by Joël Thibert Pdf

With the demise of the Old Regionalist project of achieving good regional governance through amalgamation, voluntary collaboration has become the modus operandi of a large number of North American metropolitan regions. Although many researchers have become interested in regional collaboration and its determinants, few have specifically studied its outcomes. This book contributes to filling this gap by critically re-evaluating the fundamental premise of the New Regionalism, which is that regional problems can be solved without regional/higher government. In particular, this research asks: to what extent does regional collaboration have a significant independent influence on the determinants of regional resilience? Using a comparative (Canada-U.S.) mixed-method approach, with detailed case studies of the San Francisco Bay Area, the Greater Montreal and trans-national Niagara-Buffalo regions, the book examines the direct and indirect impacts of inter-local collaboration on policy and policy outcomes at the regional and State/Provincial levels. The book research concentrates on the effects of bottom-up, state-mandated and functional collaboration and the moderating role of regional awareness, higher governmental initiative and civic capital on three outcomes: environmental preservation, socio-economic integration and economic competitiveness. In short, the book seeks to highlight those conditions that favor collaboration and might help avoid the collaborative trap of collaboration for its own sake. More specifically, this research concentrates on the effect of bottom-up, state-mandated and functional collaboration, the moderating role of regional awareness, governmental initiative and civic capital on environmental preservation, socio-economic integration and economic competitiveness. In short, the book seeks to understand whether and how urban regional collaboration contributes to regional resilience.

Author : Kock, Ned
Publisher : IGI Global
Page : 750 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2007-12-31
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781599040011

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Encyclopedia of E-Collaboration by Kock, Ned Pdf

"This encyclopedia provides the most comprehensive compilation of information on the design and implementation of e-collaboration technologies, their behavioral impact on individuals and groups, and theoretical considerations on links between the use of e-collaboration technology and behavioral patterns. It delivers indispensable content to libraries and researchers looking to develop programs of investigation into the use of e-collaboration"--Provided by publisher.

Author : James W. Tamm,Ronald J. Luyet
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2004-12-14
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 006074250X

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Radical Collaboration by James W. Tamm,Ronald J. Luyet Pdf

Collaborative skills have never been more important. At work, you can't afford to be defensive, hostile, or even too cynical. It's never easy, but getting along with your colleagues or customers is imperative, whether you're on a long-term assignment, a temporary project, or a virtual team where you're connected to colleagues only by cell phone and e-mail. Radical Collaboration: Five Essential Skills to Overcome Defensiveness and Build Successful Relationships is a how-to manual for anyone who wants to be more skillful at building relationships, both professional and personal. James W. Tamm and Ronald J. Luyet will show you how to gently look inside yourself for the answers, with page after page of thoughtful exercises and probing tools that will increase your skills. The four introspective skills you will learn are: Collaborative Intention, Truthfulness, Self-Accountability, and Self-Awareness and Awareness of Others. You also have to get what you need from the world around you. That's why Radical Collaboration teaches a critical fifth skill: Problem Solving and Negotiating. Tamm and Luyet teach you how to negotiate using the highly effective interest-based approach to problem solving. At the heart of the book is a theory of human relationships called Fundamental Interpersonal Relations Orientation, or FIRO. It explains how unmet emotional needs can sabotage our efforts to collaborate. How does the online profile work? When you get to chapter 7, you will be directed to a unique code number printed on a sticker on the inside back flap of this book. Take this number to the Web site for the book, www.radicalcollaboration.com. Here, you will be able to take a free relationship profile called the FIRO Element B. This profile will increase your awareness of how you behave in relationships and give you information about your behavior in three areas that strongly influences your ability to collaborate. The test will measure how important control is to you, how important it is for you to be included, and how comfortable you are being open about yourself. Are you are defensive and fearful? Is that preventing you from collaborating? Use the exercises in this book to identify your habits, and then learn how to moderate them. You will quickly become more effective at work and at home.

Author : Dorothy Norris-Tirrell,Joy A. Clay
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2017-09-25
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781351547741

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Strategic Collaboration in Public and Nonprofit Administration by Dorothy Norris-Tirrell,Joy A. Clay Pdf

Market disruptions, climate change, and health pandemics lead the growing list of challenges faced by today’s leaders. These issues, along with countless others that do not make the daily news, require novel thinking and collaborative action to find workable solutions. However, many administrators stumble into collaboration without a strategic orientation. Using a practitioner-oriented style, Strategic Collaboration in Public and Nonprofit Administration: A Practice-Based Approach to Solving Shared Problems provides guidance on how to collaborate more effectively, with less frustration and better results. The authors articulate an approach that takes advantage of windows of opportunity for real problem solving; brings multi-disciplinary participants to the table to engage more systematically in planning, analysis, decision making, and implementation; breaks down barriers to change; and ultimately, lays the foundation for new thinking and acting. They incorporate knowledge gained from organization and collaboration management research and personal experience to create a fresh approach to collaboration practice that highlights: Collaboration Lifecycle Model Metric for determining why and when to collaborate Set of principles that distinguish Strategic Collaboration Practice Overall Framework of Strategic Collaboration Linking collaboration theory to effective practice, this book offers essential advice that fosters shared understanding, creative answers, and transformation results through strategic collaborative action. With an emphasis on application, it uses scenarios, real-world cases, tables, figures, tools, and checklists to highlight key points. The appendix includes supplemental resources such as collaboration operating guidelines, a meeting checklist, and a collaboration literature review to help public and nonprofit managers successfully convene, administer, and lead collaboration. The book presents a framework for engaging in collaboration in a way that stretches current thinking and advances public service practice.