Teaming patterns & anti-patterns for the UNL Raikes School Design Studio Class on 12/7/10

1. Teaming Nate Lowry Software Engineer Don’t Panic Labs

2. Today Teams Why? Patterns & Anti-Patterns Experiences Extra Stuff

3. Memes (our new dog)

4. Why? Teaming

6. Patterns & Anti-Patterns Teaming

7. [Name] [Anti-pattern (BAD)] [Examples] [Pattern (GOOD)] [How to get to this]

8. Homeworker Always doing homework or working on a project in team time Set a team policy to not work on homework during team time Enforce that policy Have them make up team time (not the best)

9. Captain Flash Game Playing flash games in team time Make a team policy Enforce the policy Install a blacklist extension

10. Document(ation) Allergies Never documents code, design, anything Pair them with someone Rotate tasks

11. Bad Workstation Always blocked because their machine “doesn’t work” Get it fixed Pair

12. Foodie “I don’t get lunch on <x-day>, so I’m going to grab it in team time.” Have them get a sack lunch from Selleck Have them make up team time (not the best)

13. The Hangover “Dude, $1.50 32 oz. ___s at ____ last night.” Talk to them about how the team is more important than the available-every-night-special (that they hit up every night)

14. Work Hog (+ subtypes) Someone does all the UI, Web, AJAX, DB, deployment, obscure technology, etc. Rotate tasks on a schedule Can’t do the same task two iterations in a row Pair them up

15. Out-of-scoper Always working on something not in scope Daily Standups Pairing

16. Two-weeker “Oh yea, that’ll only take two weeks tops.” Don’t make hasty estimations or promises Sleep on it “We’ll get back to you tomorrow”

17. Always Blocked Always blocked on something Remove the roadblocks Bring in help Switch tasks

18. Unit Test h8r “unit tests R dum. i cant believe we have 2 do them.” Ask them why Write one with them Make it easy/painless Ask someone in industry

19. Client/Class h8r Talks bad about the client or class without doing anything about it Ask them why Empathize Stop snowballing

20. No-er (Design, UI, etc.) “I don’t do UI” Pair them up Encourage them to try Don’t ridicule

21. Tardi-er “Sorry I’m late again…” Ask them why Incentives (maybe) Stay late (maybe)

22. 1 commit per week AKA Code Hoarder. Only checks in about once a week (usually breaking everything) Pair Encourage frequent commits & Pulls Make it “safe” to commit Not going to break anything Can be rolled back

24. Experiences Teaming

26. Extra Stuff Teaming

27. Teaming Tools Forming, Storming, Norming, Performing StrengthsQuest Myers-Briggs Belbin Team Inventory Emerginetics! Teampedia.net (should be called IceBreakers.net) Team Building Exercise ‘99

28. Questions? (or memes bites you) JK