Why team collaboration and communication is so painful?

A recent twit from Gerry Kirk that I follow on Twitter, is providing me with an answer to this question.

His recent link to Working Agreements is putting emphasis on it, not directly but indirectly.

When I read this, one thing struck me: there is a lot expected from everyone - not too much - but a lot. Failures at communicating these expectations will undermine your team. Not only at the Agile/Scrum level as explained by Nicolas but at all levels of your organisation.

People have to understand the purpose of the expected communication and collaboration activities. They have to value them as a practice and they have to buy into the technology that enables these activities to happen.

Again, the people, process and tool triangle...

Will you join the Google wave?

I am quite late with this Google news but I am just done watching the developer preview at Google IO on May 28th.

It's quite long but quite worth it as an overview.


This is very exciting in my opinion as it revolutionize further the way we communicate. Google already created a mini revolution with Gmail, but Wave integrates all communicateion tools we use daily (email, IM, SMS, blog, content collaboration, etc...) in one. That's lovely. The more I think about it, it's not a communication revolution but a collaboration one.

We have all replaced the words "search this" in favor of "google this"... I would like to predict that we will soon replace email and threads by Waves! IMNSHO, this is the end of email the way we use it today.

Will you join the Wave?