by Stacey Dickinson, Solutions View, Inc.
Anyone at any level of an organization who depends on other teams(or individuals) to complete work has encountered many challenges. Effective cross group collaboration begins by identifying these challenges and applying practical tools to minimize their impact. In addition, individuals must develop a self awareness of cross-group dynamics when schedule pressures are applied or different physical locations (and cultures) are involved. This session will discuss key challenges when working across multiple teams and provide two keys tools that you can apply right away to ensure complex collaboration and dependency scenarios can be predictably successful and potential conflicts can be identified early. More tools can be obtained by attending the Cross Group Collaboration class to be held at Construx Q2 2006.
Stacey Dickinson has been in the technology industry for over 20 years specializing in relational databases and training. She began teaching customers to administer and design databases on Microsoft SQL Server version 1.0 in 1989 and continued working on the product in both training and courseware development through version 7.0. As a training manager at Microsoft, Stacey owned all training for Program Managers and Marketers in the Product Groups. In recent years, she has taught the Peer Mentoring workshop to more than 3000 developers, testers, program managers and others and the Cross Group Collaboration workshop to more than 600 participants. Stacey is the president of Solutions View Inc., a training consulting firm.
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