 One of the biggest concepts that I learned from the book Sprint was the concept of working alone together. Each member is working alone together towards the same goal, but individually. The cool thing is that each individual is trying to solve the problem from their own perspective and they're not sharing the solutions with each other. What usually happens in a meeting is people talk and all the solutions are mixed together and in the end you just get this one compromise solution. Whereas if you work alone together, everyone's solutions get presented after maybe hours of having worked on them alone and every single one of them is different and you can pick the best parts of it without each individual having already been compromised by talking to everybody. So it's the best way to get multiple real different solutions to look at before making a decision on what you want to do versus everyone talking together and just having one Frankenstein solution where the loudest person in the room's ideas are basically the ones that go forward. That's why alone together is such a cool concept.