collaboration
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Counterintuitive Tips for Agile Collaboration While true for all teams, agile software development is especially reliant on teams and collaboration. What makes a team function well can be counterintuitive. | 
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Getting Coworkers to Like You Even software professionals need to know how to be well-regarded in the workplace. Naomi Karten presents some tips on how to get coworkers to like you. | 
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Doctors and Patients Aided by Advanced Surgical SoftwareDoctors in Israel are developing software that decreases the risks involved with brain surgery and making surgeons lives a whole lot easier. How else is technology increasing the level of care that patients receive when they have to go under the knife? | 
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Hero Culture or Crisis Culture?Organizations should avoid developing a "hero culture," but keep in mind that the heroes themselves aren't the villains. It's the organization's inability to handle difficult situations on a regular basis that leads to trouble. | 
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The Wisdom of CrowdsThe "wisdom of crowds," or crowdsourced testing, can be a powerful tool if harnessed correctly. It also can backfire when tweaking user-facing functionality in a live environment, as a couple of big-name companies discovered. Tread carefully! | 
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Agility through TeamworkAgile teams deliver business value frequently, adapting to the changing needs of the business, while working at a sustainable pace (paraphrasing Elisabeth Hendrickson’s Agile Acid Test). What’s the secret to achieving true “agility”? Why do so many software teams fail to achieve it? | 
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JP Morgan Chase Is Going AgileJP Morgan Chase is going agile! It only took a hundred years or so. | 
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Tips for Managing a Distributed Team In a Better Software magazine article she authored, Lisa Crispin discusses some challenges and solutions she and her team have encountered while working with a team member who is located in India—half a world away from the rest of the team. |
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