Improving Collaboration

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/