SVEN PETERS | TEAM ADVOCATE | @SVENPET
Shape up your team
Build a shared understanding
atlassian.com/blog/state-of-teams-2022
Team Health
2022 82%
Partially healthy
5%
Unhealthy
13%
Healthy
Is your team in shape?
24 % Alignment
100 % Cohesion
67 % Psycholochical Safety
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Diagnoseyourteam
Team cohesion
Balanced team
Encourage differnces
Shared understanding
Value and metrics
Suitable ways of working
Engagement and support
Continuous improvement
Team cohesion
Balanced team
Encourage differnces
Shared understanding
Value and metrics
Suitable ways of working
Engagement and support
Continuous improvement
8
Checkpoints for better
Team Health
Balanced team
Shared understanding
Team cohesion
Balanced team
Encourage differnces
Shared understanding
Value and metrics
Suitable ways of working
Engagement and support
Continuous improvement
#1
Problem?
Shared understanding
Shared understanding
Shared understanding
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Roles & responsibilities Network of teams
Team poster
What’s your mission?
👋 Architect a backend platform that is easy to build on
and scales with Trello and Atlassian over the next 3 years.
Who are you?
Software
Engineer
Development
Manager
Engineering
Architect
Product
Manager
Software
Developer
A Confluence page
👋 Architect a backend platform that is easy to build on and scales
with Trello and Atlassian over the next 3 years.
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Goals & projects
Team members
What problem is the team solving?
Who are the customers?
How will we measure success?
What solutions do we offer?
What’s included…
Working agreements
Roles & responsibilities Network of teams
👋 Architect a backend platform that is easy to build on and scale
with Trello and Atlassian over the next 3 years.
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Roles & responsibilities Network of teams
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Roles & responsibilities Network of teams
Roles & responsibilities
1. Identify Roles
👩🎨
Designer
🧑💼
Product Manager
👩💻
Developer
2. Responsibilities (what you think)
👩🎨
Designer
🧑💼
Product Manager
👩💻
Developer
Design UI Prototypes
Measure
User Research Pritoritize
Marketing link Fix bugs
Develop
Testing
3. Responsibilities (what the team thinks)
👩🎨
Designer
🧑💼
Product Manager
👩💻
Developer
Design UI Prototypes
Measure
User Research Pritoritize
Marketing link Fix bugs
Develop
Testing
User Research Roadmap Measure
4. Agree and Disagree
👩🎨
Designer
🧑💼
Product Manager
👩💻
Developer
Design UI Prototypes Pritoritize
Marketing link Fix bugs
Develop
Testing
Roadmap
Measure
User Research
User Research Measure
4. Agree and Disagree
👩🎨
Designer
🧑💼
Product Manager
👩💻
Developer
Design UI Prototypes
Measure
User Research Pritoritize
Marketing link Fix bugs
Develop
Testing
User Research Roadmap Measure
Identify roles on the team
Determine what others think
Share what you think
Identify gaps in role understanding
Identify unassigned responsibilities
What’s included…
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Roles & responsibilities
Team poster Working agreements Network of teams
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Roles & responsibilities Network of teams
Working agreements
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Team poster Roles & responsibilities Network of teams
Team preferences
Communication channels
Meetings/rituals
Escalation process
Continuous improvement
What’s included…
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What
communication
channels do you
use?
When do you
use which
channel?
What are
important
communication
rules?
When do you
use which
channel?
What are
important
communication
rules?
What are
important
communication
rules?
Customer communication
Internal communication
Concepts, ideas, planning with internal teams
External documents
First concepts
Mockups
Customer communication
Internal communication
Concepts, ideas, planning with internal teams
External documents
First concepts
Mockups
Failures are systematic - no
fi
nger pointing
Respect privacy of team personal information
Building relationships based on trust, mutual
respect, and genuine connection
Seek to understand
fi
rst, then provide
feedback.
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Design
Operation
Feature A
Feature B
Testing
Autonomous teams
highly aligned
Autonomous teams
highly aligned
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Network of teams
Your
Team
Your
Team
Identify teams
you work with
PMM by
Markey
Team
Anywhere
Brand
Team
Data
Insights
University
PR + Coms
Confluence
Trello
Community
CSI GTM
Compass
Product
Atlas
Product
JPD Product
Your
Team
Classify teams
by type and
critically
PMM by
Markey
Team
Anywhere
Brand
Team
Data
Insights
University
PR + Coms
Confluence
Trello
Community
CSI GTM
Compass
Product
Atlas
Product
JPD Product
Your
Team
Determine top
five critical
teams
PMM by
Markey
Team
Anywhere
Brand
Team
Data
Insights
University
PR + Coms
Confluence
Trello
Community
CSI GTM
Compass
Product
Atlas
Product
JPD Product
Your
Team
Assign
realtionship
owners
PMM by
Markey
Team
Anywhere
Brand
Team
Data
Insights
University
PR + Coms
Confluence
Trello
Community
CSI GTM
Compass
Product
Atlas
Product
JPD Product
Your
Team
Asses the
strength of the
relationship
PMM by
Markey
Team
Anywhere
Brand
Team
Data
Insights
University
PR + Coms
Confluence
Trello
Community
CSI GTM
Compass
Product
Atlas
Product
JPD Product
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Roles & responsibilities
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Team cohesion
Balanced team
Encourage differnces
Shared understanding
Value and metrics
Suitable ways of working
Engagement and support
Continuous improvement
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Team Shaping - Building a shared understanding