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Highly recommended post about "Guidelines for Group Collaboration and Emergence".

Four types of teams and the environment in which they work best: 

• Traditional hierarchical: territory is familiar & predictable, requirements well-known.

• Breakthrough: project must develop major new innovation. Environment chaotic & random, project structures become very unstable as they grow larger.

• Synchronized: project success dependent on shared vision and common values. Effectiveness requires full commitment by all members to a sufficiently complex vision of mission and methods of group. 

• Open: territory is turbulent & fluid, success requires an open-ended, flexible apporach. “Adaptive collaboration is tailored for technical problem-solving… What is important in this view of projects and progress is the adaptive fit between how the team is working and what it is they are working on” (op.cit. p.72)

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