Journal Entry, Week Nine

Discuss the benefits and challenges of collaboration

Collaboration is a fantastic thing to do to tackle large projects.  Collaboration allows people to put their knowledge together and think of a solution that otherwise couldn't have come to light without collaborating.  It allows knowledge to be shared among peers and is what is responsible for most of today's creations.  Modern vehicles couldn't be designed without the help of many people working on a project.  Artificial Intelligence would be extremely difficult to have created without collaborating with others.  

Some challenges that come up with collaboration is that many times, people just don't agree with each other and this can stalemate the project.  If people continue having disagreeing ideas or viewpoints, eventually this causes turmoil in the group, and productivity decreases until a compromise is met or the person causing the discord in the group is let go.  Collaboration allows for ideas to flourish but putting them into effect can be difficult if everyone is not on board to try it.  I would only use collaboration for large projects that I don't believe I can tackle alone, otherwise I prefer to work alone due to the simplicity and efficiency of it.