Collaborative design
Everybody's different ideas need to meet
Let's imagine that you've been tasked with building a 3-tier web application and you have a small team that includes people with specialisms in web technology, server-side programming and databases. From a resourcing point of view this is excellent because, together, you have experience across the entire stack. You shouldn't have any problems, right?
The effectiveness of the overall team comes down to a number of factors that include people's willingness to leave their egos at the door and focus on delivering the best solution given the context. Sometimes, though, individual specialisms can work against a team; simply through a lack of team-based experience or because ego gets in the way of the common goal. Ask the specialists in the team where a certain feature or component should go and you might get 3 totally different answers...
