The Lessons learned during our ten-year journey of becoming a hyper-productive Team of Teams. Trying also to highlight the risks hyper-productivity might have on team members. First presented at the "Our Great Team Seminar" on 26th of Nov 2020. See: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yiIEn4z9Gvo&t=3280s
3. 1. The Siili Sitefinity Team –
Some Basic Facts
2. What our Current Team Members See as the
Reasons for our Success
3. Deeper, Catalytic and Earlier Stage Factors
Explaining our Success
4. The Start-up Mentality
5. Achieving Hyper-Productivity Comes with a Price
6. A Retrospective –
What Would We Keep,
What Would We Ditch and
What Would We Do Differently
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10. WHAT OUR CURRENT TEAM MEMBERS
SEE AS THE REASONS
FOR OUR SUCCESS
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11. Individuals driving it by sheer force of will.
Technical experience, significant number of
implementations, good collaboration
Active & open communication
Good team spirit
Open discussions in safe environment
(you may express your opinion freely)
Dedication to the cause, skills, versatility of the team
Honesty with team and work
Ready to help if someone is in need
We are a team and we are all united,
never leave team members to face issues alone
Good communication and supporting each other
Deep technical and
practical knowledge
Everyone is always willing to help each other
…doesn't matter how busy they are
Professional attitude, no matter whether online or personal
12. Individuals driving it by sheer force of will.
Technical experience, significant number of
implementations, good collaboration
Active & open communication
Good team spirit
Open discussions in safe environment
(you may express your opinion freely)
Dedication to the cause, skills, versatility of the team
Honesty with team and work
Ready to help if someone is in need
We are a team and we are all united,
never leave team members to face issues alone
Good communication and supporting each other
Deep technical and
practical knowledge
Everyone is always willing to help each other
…doesn't matter how busy they are
Professional attitude, no matter whether online or personal
13. + -
Taught me about things that shouldn't be done or what must be
done for a team to progress and what happens when it's not done.
Very talented team with good technical collaboration
I have become more open,
stressing less with my communication
I can be creative, bearing
responsibility for my actions
Learning a lot from my team-
mates, got even more motivated
I feel free to give
my feedback
I feel I'm part of a team which helps me to grow
I feel like I'm needed I feel more confident
There is a lot of learning
Better English skills
Improving soft skills
Get to work people with different
nationalities and backgrounds
I learned how to work like a pro
with better communications skills
Sometimes we don't
follow basic scrum rules
I feel I don't have time
to take care of myself
Getting stressed more often
Stressful projects
It is difficult when we are bit
separated from each other
14. The perspective of another Siili site
Team, people, business, technology -
helping in all of the neglected areas
Reflecting the attitude to the team, that I learned from it
I collaborate, ask questions, communicate and I'm always ready to help
Effective working, knowledge sharing
My expertise in web development
I try to do my work as perfectly as possible
Giving my 100% to contribute to the team's success
Trying to always do my best work and help
others if they are struggling with something
Taken responsibility to deliver what is expected
Ready to contribute and learn more
15. The perspective of another Siili site
Team, people, business, technology -
helping in all of the neglected areas
Reflecting the attitude to the team, that I learned from it
I collaborate, ask questions, communicate and I'm always ready to help
Effective working, knowledge sharing
My expertise in web development
I try to do my work as perfectly as possible
Giving my 100% to contribute to the team's success
Trying to always do my best work and help
others if they are struggling with something
Taken responsibility to deliver what is expected
Ready to contribute and learn more
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An “All for one, one for all” team spirit
leading to self-promotion and to driving sales
Using a “contender” technology
Isolation from the
surrounding organization
21. — Agile practices and basic support from the organization
will deliver hyper-productivity
— For a newbie team it takes up to 6 months
— With “proto-teams” you can achieve hyper-productivity faster
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Burn Down
25. Keep
— Psychological Safety -> Good Communication -> Learning
— Support passionate professionals
— Support self-organization (don’t meddle)
Stop
— Negative spirals of immersion
— Milking the team – no cash-cows
What would you do differently?
— Build in extra capacity
— Do internal interventions
