Guidelines for Group Collaboration and Emergence (via emergent by design)

One more re-blog from Vanessa Meimis’ brilliant blog.

This post reflects what I am convinced the Montreal Junto is capable of, and explains why it is capable of that. Creative, productive collaboration is best-achieved through a structure of peers discussing problems with peers. I was planning on pointing you to a specific section of the post that would be of particular interest to participants in the Montreal Junto, but the whole of it reveals much behind the ingenius practicality of loose collaborative organizations.

Keep posting at emergent by design – we’ll keep reading and learning!

I’m in the middle of taking a course on Virtual Learning Environments (syllabus here), and reading a few chapters from Adaptive Software Development by Highsmith. It approaches the team-building and collaboration process from the perspective of complex adaptive systems theory, and contains some interesting insights in evolutionary development and creating environments where emergence can occur. I’ve created a summary of a chapter that I’d like to … Read More

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