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Quotes about Team Collaboration

The capability of self-organizing teams lies in collaboration. When two engineers scratch out a design on a whiteboard, they are collaborating. When team members meet to brainstorm a design, they are collaborating. When team leaders meet to decide whether a product is ready to ship, they are collaborating. The result of any collaboration can be categorized as a tangible deliverable, a decision, or shared knowledge.
~ Jim Highsmith
The feature delivery approach helps define a workable interface between customers and product developers.
~ Jim Highsmith
Iterative development, when accompanied with reasonable end-of-iteration reviews—product, technical, process, team—is also self-correcting.
~ Jim Highsmith
Only experience can refine a leader's art. High-uncertainty projects are full of anxiety, change, and ambiguity that the team must deal with. It takes a different style of project management, a different pattern of team operation, and a different type of project leader. I've labeled this type of management leadership-collaboration.
~ Jim Highsmith
A team can employ agile practices, but it won't achieve the potential benefit of agile development without embracing agile values and principles.
~ Jim Highsmith
When we don't pull our own weight, we drag down everyone else.
~ Jim Stovall
But, while a group can function to be better than the sum of the individuals, it doesn't automatically turn out that way. Being in a group can improve our decision quality by exploring alternatives and recognizing where our thinking might be biased, but a group can also exacerbate our tendency to confirm what we already believe
~ Annie Duke
to come up with ways a decision or plan can go bad, so the team can anticipate and account for them.
~ Annie Duke
We are definitely a team, from each band member to our management/booking agent. I like to be as involved as possible with business decisions, but at a certain point, it's important to me to step aside and let the professionals do their thing.
~ Grace Potter
I did a four-year degree in five years. I have awesome support from my team and my professors. Everyone's super on board and that makes my life a bit easier.
~ Brendan Bottcher
Lots of people have plenty of ideas; lots of people have plenty of money, but in the end, if you want to turn that money into profit, you have to do it through others.
~ Robert J. Fisher
John D. Rockefeller said that he found friendships based on business to be far more long lasting and profitable than the reverse. I think there's something to that. A company can end up being very Confucian, where the good of the individual is subjugated to the good of the whole.
~ Ben Horowitz
When you work in a multicast project, there has to be a lot of respect and cooperation from each other.
~ Abhinav Shukla
What I promise to my actors, and to my director, is to give them the salary and everything they need.
~ Jean-Claude Van Damme
My team members are Hector Soto, who is a boxing promoter and Vice-president of Miguel Cotto Promotions. He runs all my business. He was the person that my father left in charge of it all. Bryan Perez is my right-hand man.
~ Miguel Cotto
Have a little protection if that helps your bowler - Brett Lee always wanted a cover and a midwicket because they helped him bowl his natural length and made him more effective as a result.
~ Glenn McGrath
If you have a cofounder, one of the benefits is you'll get from point A to point B two times faster.
~ Julia Hartz
It always helps to have someone who can say, No, we can do it faster this way, or We have to break the rules, even our own rules, to get things done.
~ Tom Anderson
If the batsmen can give the bowlers a day and half of rest then that is going to work in the team's favour.
~ Glenn McGrath
I think that's what you need throughout your lineup. You need guys to help each other and feed off each other and to have that chemistry.
~ Connor McDavid
Coach Donovan always harped on making sure that we're on the same page, that we're feeding off each other, and that's one of the things that I feel like I add value to.
~ Al Horford
Sometimes, when you've got a couple of females on the cast, you'll have a diva, or you'll have arguments. I've been on shows where girls haven't quite got on.
~ Ricky Whittle
As a batting captain, you do have to earn bowlers' trust, especially when it comes to fields.
~ Jonathan Agnew
We seem to have some quite good 'FIFA 17' players at Chelsea.
~ N'Golo Kante