Chapter 5. Supporting Team Collaboration

Great discoveries and improvements invariably involve the cooperation of many minds. I may be given credit for having blazed the trail, but when I look at the subsequent developments, I feel the credit is due to others rather than to myself.

—Alexander Graham Bell, inventor

Back in 1999, when working with an offshore project team, I encountered several common stumbling blocks that are very typical of any project. These challenges encompassed the three aspects of collaboration that every project team encounters.