What the article calls "collaboration" is not collaboration, but performative work, in other words wasting time.
People love to invent reasons why they can not do something. "I need help", "I don't know", "I don't want to decide this", then they use these reasons to do performative work, meetings, pair programming, etc.
Collaboration happens when multiple people want to achieve a goal together. What the article calls "collaboration" is multiple people not wanting to achieve a goal, while pretending to want the opposite. These shouldn't be conflated, as actual collaboration is enormously powerful.
People love to invent reasons why they can not do something. "I need help", "I don't know", "I don't want to decide this", then they use these reasons to do performative work, meetings, pair programming, etc.
Collaboration happens when multiple people want to achieve a goal together. What the article calls "collaboration" is multiple people not wanting to achieve a goal, while pretending to want the opposite. These shouldn't be conflated, as actual collaboration is enormously powerful.