J Robbins
United States of America
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(Mar 10, 2005 - 1:55 PM)
Peer-to-peer, chat, IM, email, file sharing, on-line meetings... they are all just pushing bits from point A to point B. People often have face-to-face meetings without accomplishing that much.
The key is not to just communicate, but to actually collaborate, and that requires that people actually get down to the meaning of the thing that they are working on.
A really interesting and useful collaboration tool for software developers is ReadySET Pro (http://www.readysetpro.com/). It actually gives teams a big head start on formulating their use cases, test cases, security plans, requirements documents, design documents, and project plans.