1. Foster a culture of communication: Establish an open and transparent channel of communication that allows team members to express their thoughts and ideas without fear of criticism or retribution. Encourage all team members to communicate regularly and frequently.
2. Use agile collaboration tools: Invest in agile collaboration tools that facilitate communication and collaboration between team members regardless of their physical location. These tools should be easy-to-use and enhance collaboration and project tracking.
3. Align resources: Ensure that everybody is aligned towards the same project vision, mission and goals. Attend regular stand-up meetings or scrum meetings to ensure everybody is on the same page.
4. Collaborate early and often: Begin architectural collaboration as early as possible in the project lifecycle. This will allow for major design changes to be implemented more easily.
5. Encourage experimentation: Experimentation leads to innovation. Experiment by using various models of software architecture.
6. Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment: Maintain a continuous integration and deployment workflow, which ensures the code is built, tested and deployed into the production environment in an automated fashion.
7. Embrace agile values: Agile software development is focused on collaboration, communication, flexibility, and responsiveness. Adopt these values so that architects can easily adapt to the situation at hand.
8. Foster a sense of ownership: Encourage every team member to take responsibility for the project and its execution. Team members must coordinate their efforts with each other to achieve the desired outcome.
9. Promote a culture of excellence: Embrace the idea of quality assurance and standards integration into your software development lifecycle. Strive to develop a culture of excellence by mentoring your team members, providing guidance and support.
10. Empower your team: Provide your team with the level of autonomy they require to complete their tasks while guiding them towards the project's primary goals. Trust that they have the capability to work towards the completion of a successful project.
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