In my previous post I wrote about Culture for Collaboration. One thing I didn’t go into was that in order to create a culture of collaboration, you must first establish basic trust. Trust is something that is extremely hard to just “establish”, it is something you earn. In short, establishing trust is not done over night. So were to start? Empower individuals and teams If you by your actions and words show that you trust a team or individual you will in time earn their trust.

At my current gig we are working hard on splitting up an old monolith which is the wart of the our business. This work is time consuming and it takes a long time. Why not write a new system and make a switch once it’s complete? This question gets asked a lot by people who come to our company and by various stakeholders. They are frustrated by the fact that breaking up “the pile of mud” takes a lot of time and effort.