Welcome to the team! Practices that supercharge teams! Presented at 360iDev 2015 in Denver, Colorado. More info at http://360idev.com/sessions/welcome-to-the-team/.

1. Welcome to The Team!
Practices that supercharge teams
Presented by
Adam Zolyak
Project Manager at POSSIBLE Mobile
August 18, 2015 at 2015 360iDev Conference

2. Building Apps
Is A Team Sport

3. Teams are complex
adaptive systems

4. The systems around us are
the largest predictor of
behavior and outcomes
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6. “Don’t look for bad people,
look for bad systems.”
-Jeff Sutherland

7. I am passionate about
helping individuals and
teams to work in better
systems

8. All The Things
For Awesome Teams

9. Before We Dive In
You may already know about these practices.
But do you do them?
But do you teach them to others?
Many of these practices are common sense.
But they require discipline, courage, and commitment to
do them well.

10. Purpose

11. Purpose
A Single Product Owner
+ Helps teams to understand business
goals and users
+ Makes quick decisions and provides
quick feedback
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12. Purpose
A Ready Backlog
+ Empowers team to work on
the next most valuable thing
+ Ready means prioritized,
estimated, and has
#AllTheThings
Ready
#1
#2
#3
#4
#5
#6
#7
StackRankedPriority

13. Focus

14. Focus
Iterations
+ It’s tangible to plan and focus on 1-2 weeks
+ Provides a rhythm for work and recurring
inspection and adaptation

15. Focus
Stop Starting, Start Finishing
Ready Doing (Max 2)+ Limiting work in progress
encourages team members
to swarm and help each
other
+ Multitasking…

16. Focus
Work on Related Things
+ Working on related things
together
+ Reduces context switching
+ Helps create a cohesive user
experience
Ready
Theme A
Theme B

17. Synchronize
and Collaborate

18. Synchronization
Diverge and Converge
+ Diverge to generate ideas,
leveraging the team’s
diversity and wisdom
+ Converge to make a plan /
find a solution

19. Synchronization
Visualize Work / Process
+ Easier to see bottlenecks, stagnation,
and status
Ready Doing (Max 2) Done

20. Synchronization
Be Together
+ CoLocation
+ Osmotic Communication
+ Pairing

21. Inspect / Adapt

22. Inspect / Adapt
Quick Feedback Cycles
+ Standups
+ Chat
+ Builds / Demos
+ Retrospectives

23. Inspect / Adapt
Seeing Is Understanding
+ Seeing provides richer
communication vs. words alone
+ Use comps on walls, builds and
demos, and pairing to understand
each other and build empathy
+ “Don’t Tell Me, Show Me”
Demo
Time!

24. Inspect / Adapt
Play Pingpong, Eat Lunch
+ Take time to have fun and enjoy each
other’s company
+ Hanging out help to build
understanding, empathy, and
camaraderie

25. Questions?