Is your team or project supposed to “be agile?” You might not feel that way if you have a years-long backlog, standups are individual status reports, and everyone is still multitasking. The people on the project want to do great work. But how you work feels a lot like an “agile” death march. There’s a reason you feel that way. You’re using fake agility—a waterfall lifecycle masquerading as an agile approach. No one has to work that way.

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Leveraging Communication is the key to the Collaboration that makes Teams excel at higher levels. Whatever your team style, these tips will help you to know yourself and your communication strengths to be a better asset when you work with others whether you are lead ing the charge or working within a team. When what we’re transmitting is received incorrectly, communication breaks down and there is very little collaboration - We can all learn to communicate more effectively.

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