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.

Photo by Michael Heiss A popular mantra the past few years is that “software is a collaborative game”. However in a large organization or project, is this really possible? When things get big and the number of communications lines exceed what is possible to handle for an individual, is it really possible to collaborate? A behavior of teams when things get clouded is to construct a world which is tangible and possible to manage.