The document discusses collaboration contracts and how teams can use them to make decisions more effectively. Collaboration contracts involve team members indicating how they will participate in different types of decisions, such as making the sole decision, consulting with others before deciding, agreeing with the group decision, advising the decision maker, accepting decisions, or abstaining from the process. The document provides examples of teams filling out collaboration contracts to determine decision making roles for various ideas or topics. It also discusses how to handle any conflicts that may arise from different team members choosing the same role for a particular decision.

1. @AgileSquirrel :: @DocOnDev
Collaboration
Contracts
Diane Zajac - @AgileSquirrel
Doc Norton - @DocOnDev

2. @AgileSquirrel :: @DocOnDev
Decision
Making

3. @AgileSquirrel :: @DocOnDev
Challenges

4. @AgileSquirrel :: @DocOnDev
Decisions
on a
team

5. @AgileSquirrel :: @DocOnDev
Should we involve ever yone
In all decisions?

6. Cheap Chair
from OfficeBarn.
Lumbar
Support!
I
like the office
I don’t care, but
we could each buy
our own.
Herman
Miller!
It doesn’t
matter to me, but I
like leather.

7. Cheap Chair
from OfficeBarn.
Lumbar
Support!
I
like the office
Herman
Miller!
I don’t care, but
we could each buy
our own.
It doesn’t
matter to me, but I
like leather.

8. @AgileSquirrel :: @DocOnDev
Who
Makes
The
Call?
All this discussion was super
helpful. Really. Now let’s do what I said in
the first place.

9. @AgileSquirrel :: @DocOnDev
Roles

10. @AgileSquirrel :: @DocOnDev
Cab and
Coffee

11. @AgileSquirrel :: @DocOnDev
Decisions, Decisions
Native or Responsive Web
for Mobile Experience?
What brand(s) of coffee dowe offer?

12. @AgileSquirrel :: @DocOnDev
Make a List
Native or Responsive Web
for Mobile Experience?
What brand(s) of coffee do
we offer?
Do we offer donuts too?
Cloud or our own servers?

13. @AgileSquirrel :: @DocOnDev
Sor t the List
Native or Responsive Web
for Mobile Experience?
What brand(s) of coffee do
we offer?
Do we offer donuts too?
Cloud or our own servers?

14. @AgileSquirrel :: @DocOnDev
Sor t the List
Native or Responsive Web
for Mobile Experience?
What brand(s) of coffee do
we offer?
Do we offer donuts too?
Cloud or our own servers?

15. @AgileSquirrel :: @DocOnDev
Sor t the List
Native or Responsive Web
for Mobile Experience?
What brand(s) of coffee do
we offer?
Do we offer donuts too?
Cloud or our own servers?

16. @AgileSquirrel :: @DocOnDev
Collaboration Contracts
Making team decisions easier

17. @AgileSquirrel :: @DocOnDev
Collaboration Contracts
Explain Consult Agree Advise Accept Abstain
Sole Decision
Maker
I will explain my
decision
Sole Decision
Maker
I will Consult with
others before making
this decision
Group Decision
Maker
I will Agree with
others on this
decision
Not a Decision
Maker
I will Advise the
decision maker
Not a Decision
Participant
I will accept the
decision
Not a
Participant
I will abstain from the
process

18. @AgileSquirrel :: @DocOnDev
Collaboration Contracts
Joe Alice, Susan
Art, Arnie,
Janet
Frank
Explain Consult Agree Advise Accept Abstain
Sole Decision
Maker
I will explain my
decision
Sole Decision
Maker
I will Consult with
others before making
this decision
Group Decision
Maker
I will Agree with
others on this
decision
Not a Decision
Maker
I will Advise the
decision maker
Not a Decision
Participant
I will accept the
decision
Not a
Participant
I will abstain from the
process

19. @AgileSquirrel :: @DocOnDev
Collaboration Contracts
Exercise
Idea One
Idea Too
Idea 3

20. @AgileSquirrel :: @DocOnDev
Collaboration Contracts
Exercise
Explain Consult Agree Advise Abstain
Idea One
Idea Too
Idea 3
Accept

21. @AgileSquirrel :: @DocOnDev
Collaboration Contracts
Making team decisions easier
1
Sarah
Agree

22. @AgileSquirrel :: @DocOnDev
Collaboration Contracts
Exercise
Explain Consult Agree Advise Abstain
Idea One
Idea Too
Idea 3
Accept
1
Sarah
Agree
1
Billy
Agree
1
Chris
Accept
1
Leslie
Accept

23. @AgileSquirrel :: @DocOnDev
Collaboration Contracts
Joe Alice Thom, Susan
Art, Arnie,
Janet
Frank
Explain Consult Agree Advise Accept Abstain
Sole Decision
Maker
I will explain my
decision
Sole Decision
Maker
I will Consult with
others before making
this decision
Group Decision
Maker
I will Agree with
others on this
decision
Not a Decision
Maker
I will Advise the
decision maker
Not a Decision
Participant
I will accept the
decision
Not a
Participant
I will abstain from the
process

24. @AgileSquirrel :: @DocOnDev
Collaboration Contracts
Joe
Alice, Thom,
Susan
Art, Arnie,
Janet
Frank
Explain Consult Agree Advise Accept Abstain
Sole Decision
Maker
I will explain my
decision
Sole Decision
Maker
I will Consult with
others before making
this decision
Group Decision
Maker
I will Agree with
others on this
decision
Not a Decision
Maker
I will Advise the
decision maker
Not a Decision
Participant
I will accept the
decision
Not a
Participant
I will abstain from the
process

25. @AgileSquirrel :: @DocOnDev
Collaboration Contracts
Conflicts on a Contract
Explain Consult Agree Advise Accept Abstain
1 0 0 0 1+ 0+
0 1 0 1+ 0+ 0+
0 0 2+ 0+ 0+ 0+
0 0 0 1+ 0+ 0+
0 0 0 0 1+ 0+
0 0 0 0 0 1+
Explain Consult Agree Advise Accept Abstain
Sole Decision
Maker
Sole Decision
Maker
Group Decision
Maker
Not a Decision
Maker
Not a Decision
Participant
Not a Participant

26. @AgileSquirrel :: @DocOnDev
Collaboration Contracts
Joe
Alice, Thom,
Susan
Art, Arnie,
Janet
Frank
Alice, Thom,
Arnie, Frank
Susan, Art Janet, Joe
Explain Consult Agree Advise Accept Abstain
Sole Decision
Maker
I will explain my
decision
Sole Decision
Maker
I will Consult with
others before making
this decision
Group Decision
Maker
I will Agree with
others on this
decision
Not a Decision
Maker
I will Advise the
decision maker
Not a Decision
Participant
I will accept the
decision
Not a
Participant
I will abstain from the
process

27. @AgileSquirrel :: @DocOnDev
Collaboration Contracts
Joe
Alice, Thom,
Susan
Art, Arnie,
Janet
Frank
Susan, Thom
Alice, Arnie,
Art, Frank
Janet, Joe
Explain Consult Agree Advise Accept Abstain
Sole Decision
Maker
I will explain my
decision
Sole Decision
Maker
I will Consult with
others before making
this decision
Group Decision
Maker
I will Agree with
others on this
decision
Not a Decision
Maker
I will Advise the
decision maker
Not a Decision
Participant
I will accept the
decision
Not a
Participant
I will abstain from the
process

28. @AgileSquirrel :: @DocOnDev
How could your (real) team
use this?

29. @AgileSquirrel :: @DocOnDev
What did you learn today?

30. @AgileSquirrel :: @DocOnDev
Collaboration Contracts
http://www.collaborationcontracts.com/

31. @AgileSquirrel :: @DocOnDev
Thank You!
Diane Zajac - @AgileSquirrel
diane@onbelay.co
Doc Norton - @DocOnDev
doc@onbelay.co