Collaboration does not mean my shouldering your responsibilities

It’s not news to you that collaboration is key to success in many fields, so it might shock you, as it shocks Software Delivery Managers and Scrum Masters when I say: “I don’t care whether you deliver your software.”   OK, you got me, I do care because ultimately we are striving towards the same […]

We win together or lose together

I’ve worked on so many IT projects that this video could almost be an analogy for. Except in an IT project, leave people alone to get on with what they’re good at and everyone wins. Try to win by forcing others to fail and everyone falls over in a heap. In an IT […]

Collaboration does not equal ochlocracy

Collaboration isn’t some kind of Arthurian round table. It’s not about everyone having their say or having equal weight assigned to their say.

I have no time for the old style of business analyst who spends months crafting 3,000 pages of text (but not a single model) to describe requirements and […]