Here are some steps for ImprovingCollaboration
- Be people-centric.
- This applies to how we design and present our work
- Be willing to collaborate.
- Belong to a community of like-minded people,
- Decide that working together will both strengthen this community and improve the product of collaboration.
- Create shared language.
- Our work shares more similarities than we may think.
- Conversing with others with like minds will help reveal those similarities
- Will in the process create a shared language that will make similarities apparent to all.
- As a sharing evolves, a conceptual framework for collaborative work will emerge, revealing opportunities for improvments.
- Keep improving.
- Improvement is an ongoing process.
- Introduction of new methods will change the way we collaborate, which in turn will create new opportunities to improve.
- Finally, never forget Doug Engelbart's fundamental tenet
- Computers should help us become smarter and work together better
- Remembering this will keep us on the right track.
Adapted From "A Manifesto for Collaborative Tools" -- http://www.blueoxen.org/papers/0000D/