Collaboration Explained: Facilitation Skills for Software Project Leaders

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. Collaboration Explained is the first book to bring together proven, start-to-finish techniques for ensuring effective collaboration in any agile software project. 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. As an agile coach, I’ve found

Five Stars Full of actual and practical knowledge that fills in the gap between fluff and actually getting stuff done.. Kindle Customer said Fast excellent service. This was fast, excellent service. Received the item a lot quicker than I expected and it was in perfect shape.. "Fantastic for Collaboration and Consensus building" according to Avid Reader Man. This book stands out as one of my favorites on how to really build collaborative teams, and to build consensus. It is full of real-world examples and specific techniques. This is a hard topic to tackle, and I believe that the authors write from experience.The techniques in this book are not just for "Agile" project managers. They can be applied to many different teams on how to facilitate and develop collaboration in meetings, better decisions through consensus, and generally gain team commitm

All rights reserved.. Jean Tabaka is an Agile Coach with Rally Software Development, specializing in creating, coaching, and mentoring collaborative, agile software teams. With a passion for collaboration practices through facilitation techniques, she guides organizations in creating high-performance teams. As an agile mentor, Jean coaches software teams through training and facilitation to adopt agile principles and practices using a hybrid of the leading agile metho

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. And the stories, the stories, the stories! The best way to transfer wisdom. 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. Collaboration Explained is the first book to bring together proven, sta