What is defined as ‘Working together towards a shared goal’?

Agile Project Management places a premium on collaboration—the act of different roles (business, product, and technical) working together toward a shared goal. While communication is the exchange of information, collaboration goes further: it is joint problem-solving and decision-making that aligns perspectives to deliver value. AgilePM/DSDM principles explicitly promote active business involvement and empowered teams, creating an environment where collaboration is the default for refining requirements, planning increments, resolving trade-offs, and assuring quality. Ceremonies such as backlog refinement, Sprint Planning, daily coordination, and reviews exist to reinforce collaborative behavior, shorten feedback loops, and surface constraints early. Scrum itself (option C) is a framework that enables collaboration, but the definition given—“working together towards a shared goal”—is the definition of collaboration, not the framework or governance mechanisms. Governance (option D) concerns oversight and control structures rather than the cooperative behaviors that produce outcomes. Consequently, the statement most accurately and directly defines Collaboration.