The most successful leaders have the ability to get people working together.

Why is it then, so many organizations have cultures where people are discouraged from working together (for example, development teams where they don't peer program)?

On this episode, Product Manager Brian Orlando and Enterprise Agile Coach Om Patel talk about getting people to work together without using the word collaboration.

0:00 An Interesting Exchange...
1:05 Who Benefits from this Podcast?
2:17 Everything is Priority-One
4:09 Why the Problem?
5:51 Chaotic Organizations
8:43 Transparency vs Covert Backlogs
11:27 A Theoretical (but very real) Scenario
13:41 Om's Response to the Theoretical Scenario
17:29 How to Focus
19:11 How to Focus - Business/Leadership Edition
21:10 Alignment & Communication
23:30 Mergers & Acquisitions (Product End-of-Line)
24:55 Blockers vs Impediments
30:52 Example of Impediments
33:20 Scrum Masters & Impediment Removal
35:45 Streams of Work
38:19 Assigned To - How it Should Work
42:00 Accountability & Business Categories
44:35 Challenges to Collaboration
45:46 Promting the Team To Collaborate More
47:50 Testers
49:27 The View that XP Work is "Not Work"
51:47 Changing the Mindset
55:01 Wrap-Up

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AA94 - Don't Say Collaboration