Treating Relationships as First Class Entities

This is a blog post I co-wrote with one of my clients from Vistaprint - they live on his blog.

Relationships are more than the byproducts of personalities applied to tasks.  They are real entities that enable value creation on teams as surely as the width, depth, and conditions of canals enable or inhibit the movement of goods by ship.  In mature agile implementation, eventually there are fewer process problems, and more relationship problems.  Treating relationships as ‘first-class entities’ can help…