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Making It Mean What You Think It Means: Embedded Collaboration

Posted December 9, 2008 | Leadership |

"You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means." -- Inigo Montoya, The Princess Bride

In a meeting today with a client, people were talking continually about how the IT organization and business have to improve their collaboration. The business feels a considerable amount of pain about the lack of collaboration with IT, and IT in turn is feeling some pain collaborating with the business during a transition to agile.

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Dave Rooney
Dave Rooney is a Cutter Expert. He is a veteran Agile Coach and software developer with more than 30 years’ experience. As a well-recognized member of the global Agile community since 2000, Mr. Rooney helps a wide variety of organizations — large and small, private and public sector, startups and Fortune 15 companies — improve their software delivery process. He has a deep interest in the human factors involved in the effective delivery of… Read More
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