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1. How to assemble
a winning team
Blagoj Kjupev
CIO at IT Labs

2. A lucky team?
Is it a pure luck or there’s something
else in play?
There are many approaches how to set a
good team

3. What is a winning team?
Makes money?
Makes world impact?
Makes you/team happy?
A team moving towards and achieving defined Goals

4. Team setup “influences”
Idea/Project phase Budget
Time
Required
resources/technologies

5. Project team planning
Budget/Time
Resources
Goals
Methodology
Risks/Opportunities

6. Team players
Proper background
knowledge
Team players synergy
No residual “bad blood” from
prior collaborations
Get all the required profiles

7. Team
Overture
Set team goals
• Clear expectations from anyone
Role clarification
• Everyone knows his position and responsibilities
• Friends are friends, business is a business
Problems
• Have Plan B/C for most of the team issues
Relations/Collaboration/Communication models
For big achievements, split the goals
• Set smaller achievable goals
• Define big strategy, expose tactics

8. Project ongoing
Initialize according
to plan A
Monitor -> Adjust
Measure -> Compare to plans
Adjust
• React fast, be severe when needed
• Execute plan variants B/C/D…
• Fix “broken windows”
Ask, improve, give
appreciation
Relax
Execute…

9. Team Setup
Samples
Six thinking roles/modes
The “surgeon” approach

10. Six thinking roles/modes
Encourage diversity
Make collaborative
tension among team
Have persons to
challenge most of the
ides/proposals to
reach better solution
The six roles:
• White: Data and Analysis
• Green: Creativity/Ideas
• Blue: Decision making
• Red: Instinct/Feeling
• Yellow: Optimist/Positive
• Black: Judgement

11. Six thinking roles/modes properties
Challenges Benefits How to control/
overcome challenges
• Creates open arena for
brainstorming
• Decisions are taken
slowly
• Easy transition towards
chaotic behaviour
• More through decision
making
• Almost everyone agrees
with the decisions
• Lower probability for
failure
• Diversity
• Define limitations
• Agree on timeline
• Agree on who takes
precedence in which
situations

12. The “surgeon”
approach
Full focus on small set of goals to reach the final goal
All the members are set to support the main person
Have diversity skillsets among team members
Make excellent and detailed plan for all the small steps
Great approach for repetitive projects/goals

13. Challenges:
• Focus to one and only one goal
• Requires excellent planning
• Lack of flexibility
Benefits:
• Decision are taken faster
• Focus of the whole team is to achieve the goal set
How to control/overcome challenges
• Have backup plans
• Start team “training” to work together on easier projects
• Have “spare” team players
The “surgeon”
approach

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