Collaboration Moments

Collaboration Moments

When people work together, they need moments of collaboration with different intents and purposes.

Purpose

When people work together, they need moments of collaboration with different intents and purposes. Some of these could be organized as face-to-face meetings, but most could be done remotely and/or asynchronously.

Notes

The unFIX Model does not suggest that people have meetings. Why? Because meetings have a pretty bad name in organizations worldwide. People often consider them a waste of their time. Many methods and frameworks are full of meetings, and people complain about that frequently.

On top of that, the evolution of AI and other technologies shows that the concept of the meeting is changing. We now have a choice between synchronous vs. asynchronous communication and in-person vs. remote collaboration. Thanks to AI, participants can get literal transcripts of what has been said, and they can contribute to collaboration sessions before/after a meeting through various collaboration tools.

In other words, people should collaborate around a brainstorm, a planning, a daily check-in, a release/demo, a retrospective, and so on. Whether that's seven people sitting together in a room or not is becoming irrelevant pretty quickly. This means that, in the patterns described in this set, we do not require that people come together in the same room. They may have better ways to achieve the intent of the session.

Rules / Constraints

  • We have not yet defined any rules or constraints.

Introduction Session
Team-Building Session
Sense-Making Session
Strategic Session
Planning Session
Check-in Session
Tactical Session
Review Session
Idea-Generation Session
Problem-Solving Session
Information-Sharing Session
Decision-Making Session
Coordination Session
Retrospective Session
Learning Session
Training Session
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