Working collaboratively seems to be an effective way to discover and tackle risks > The best ways to work are collaborative. Negotiation is not collaboration. Isolated individuals making heroic efforts are never as effective as collaborative groups. We get the best results when customers, business people, and developers literally work together > —Allen Holub, from [agility heuristics](https://holub.com/heuristics/) - It seems that key risks could be tackled efficiently if users, business and engineers are working closely together - Plan forward could be continuously prioritised within the team based on the latest and fresh learnings, in order to reach the goal more efficiently - Engineers, as well as users, could be involved in the idea generation to maximize learning and time-to-value - An example: **interpretation risk** is where different people interpret the same words differently. - [[alignment on key concepts seems to tackle value risk and usability risk and might increase speed of change]] - How: talk more, create a shared chat group, periodic/everyday gathering, shared goal, attempt to get mandate from the C-suite to work on the problem together Further reading: - [Product vs. Feature Teams, Marty Cagan](https://www.svpg.com/product-vs-feature-teams/)