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A TEAM PLAYBOOK SVEN PETERS K15t @svenpet

BACK IN 1999 me, ju󰇷󰇺
y󰈢󰇼󰇳󰈪er

BACK IN 1999 Wat󰇪󰇶󰈆󰈜l󰇰 i󰈤
t󰇬󰇪 󰈟󰈜y 󰇹o 󰈪󰈢

BACK IN 2004 AGILE APPROVED
Scrum

AGILE APPROVED Scrum AGILE APPROVED
Kanban AGILE APPROVED Spotify/ Squadification AGILE APPROVED Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) AGILE APPROVED Mob Programming PEOPLE WHO LIKED THIS ALSO LIKED….

AGILE APPROVED Kanban AGILE APPROVED
Priorities per project AGILE APPROVED Product Development Flow AGILE APPROVED DSDM, FDD, ASD, TDD/ATD/BDD AGILE APPROVED Extreme Manufacturing AGILE APPROVED Context Drive Testing AGILE APPROVED Beyond Budgeting AGILE APPROVED Holocracy AGILE APPROVED Rightshifting AGILE APPROVED Radical Management AGILE APPROVED Spotify/ Squadification AGILE APPROVED Scrum AGILE APPROVED Theory of constraints AGILE APPROVED Cynefin AGILE APPROVED Scrum Plop AGILE APPROVED Accelerate Agile AGILE APPROVED Agile Unified Process AGILE APPROVED Vanguard Method AGILE APPROVED Water Scrum Fall AGILE APPROVED Enterprise Unified Process AGILE APPROVED Large Scale Scrum AGILE APPROVED Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) AGILE APPROVED Management 3.0 AGILE APPROVED Mob Programming

anban Product Development Flow DSDM,
F TDD/ATD/BDD VED e cturing AGILE APPROVED Context Drive Testing AGILE APPROVED Beyond Bud AGILE APPROVED Holocracy VED fting LE APPROVED adical Management AGILE APPROVED Spotify/ Squadification AGILE APPROVED Scrum LE APPROVED nefin AGILE APPROVED Scrum Plop PPROVED guard Method AGILE APPROVED Water Scrum Fall AGILE APPROVED Enterprise U Process ru AGILE APPROVED Scal AGILE APPROVED AGILE APPROVED 18 YEARS AGILE MANIFESTO

Agile
TEAM
Structure
TEAM
Empowerment

DEV DEV OPS TESTER PAST
- CLEAR ROLES TEAM Structure

DEV OPS TESTERUX SECURITY ANALYTICS
TODAY - YOU BUILD IT, YOU OWN IT TEAM Structure

Collaborative Simple Transformative Experienced- Focused
Or󰇫a󰈡󰇮z 󰈥󰈧

Collaborative Simple Transformative Experienced- Focused
Or󰇫a󰈡󰇮z 󰈥󰈧 Un󰇷󰇺ru󰈛󰇺󰇻r󰈥󰈧

Collaborative Simple Transformative Experienced- Focused
Or󰇫a󰈡󰇮z 󰈥󰈧 Mar󰇷 󰇱 󰇧n󰈧󰇯 󰈡g Un󰇷󰇺ru󰈛󰇺󰇻r󰈥󰈧 Pet 󰇹󰈦󰇧c󰈫󰇯 󰈡g

DIFFERENT TEAMS DIFFERENT PROJECTS SAME
PROCESS? Re󰇧l󰇰 󰈠?

Collaborative
Simple
Transformative
Experienced-
Focused

Collaborative Simple Transformative Experienced- Focused
UNPREDICTABLE

Collaborative Simple Transformative Experienced- Focused
TEAM Structure TEAM Empowerment

Collaborative Simple Transformative Experienced- Focused
TEAM Structure TEAM Empowerment

Team Playbook atlassianteamplaybook.com 26 +
PLAYS

Pla 󰈂 1

PRIORITIES

USER EXPERIENCEDes󰇮 󰇫 󰈡

PROJECT X
Man󰇧󰇫󰈥󰈩en󰇹
USER EXPERIENCE

PROJECT X Pro󰇫󰈦󰇧m󰇲󰈥󰈦 FRONT END
TECH USER EXPERIENCE

PROJECT X Sal󰇪󰇷CUSTOM FEATURE FRONT
END TECH USER EXPERIENCE

PROJECT X Man󰇧󰇫󰈥󰈩en󰇹 CUSTOM FEATURE
FRONT END TECH USER EXPERIENCE PROJECT Y PROJECT Z

Pla 󰈂 1
OKR’S

OKROBJECTIVES
KEY RESULTS

SET THE DIRECTION N EW
S OBJECTIVESbi󰇫 󰇺h󰇮 󰇳 󰈪 li󰇲󰇮 󰇺 t󰇬󰈥 󰈤co󰇴󰇪 (2-3 ob󰈅 󰇪 󰈝t󰇯 󰇽e󰈤) o󰇻t󰈛󰈣󰈩e f󰈢󰇶 󰇺h󰈥 󰈛u󰈤t󰈢󰇲󰈥󰈦

DEFINE THE OUTCOME KEY RESULT
am󰇨󰇮 󰈪 󰇼o󰇻s me󰇧󰇷󰇼󰈦ab󰇰 󰇪 󰈡󰇼m󰇨e󰈦(no󰇹 󰇩󰇮n 󰈜󰇶󰈠) 1-3 K󰉊 pe󰇶 O󰇩j󰇪󰈛󰇺󰇯ve

N EW S OBJECTIVE KEY
RESULT THE TEAM WAY

The user can skim faster
through the backlog OBJECTIVE 10,000 items Backlog loading time reduced by 80 percent KEY RESULT

The user can skim faster
through the backlog OBJECTIVE Reduced by 64 percent RESULT 10,000 issues Backlog loading time reduced by 80 percent KEY RESULT 0.8

The user can skim faster
through the backlog OBJECTIVE RESULT 10,000 issues Backlog loading time reduced by 80 percent KEY RESULT 1.0 0.7 0.0 le󰇧󰇶󰈡 ye󰇧󰇬 mi󰇳󰈨b󰇰 󰈢 󰈟n

1.0 0.6 0.8 1 QUARTER
1s󰇹 󰈆or󰇪󰈛󰈜󰈤t 2n󰈧 󰈆or󰇪󰈛󰈜󰈤t Fin󰇧󰇰 󰈤c󰈣󰇶e START

Overview

Ingredients

Pla 󰈂 2

Please build Feature X Gotcha,
Feature X++ is a great idea

Next project: Feature X++ Ohh
ohh, love Feature A Nooooooo… Feature B is terrible

Collaborative Simple Transformative Experienced- Focused
OKRs Jira Daily Stand Up

Collaborative Simple Transformative Experienced- Focused
X done long discussions

Collaborative Simple Transformative Experienced- Focused
Customer growth Performance

Pla 󰈂 2
PROJECT
POSTER

PROBLEM

PROBLEM Wh 󰈂 󰈤ol 󰇽
󰇪 󰇯 󰇺? Val󰇮 󰈧 󰈜 󰇺i 󰈢n 󰈧 󰈜 󰇺a? Sol 󰇻 󰇹󰇯o 󰈡s?

Ali 󰇫 󰈡m 󰇪 󰇳
󰇺

ke 󰇪 󰇴 󰇯 󰇺
up-to-da 󰇹 󰇪 po󰇮 󰇳 󰇺 t 󰈣

Pla 󰈂 3

Jur󰇫󰇪󰈡 Sp󰈜󰇳󰈪l
Ste󰇽󰇪 󰈏󰈣󰇩s

SAME OUTFIT - EVERY DAY

LIMITED NUMBER OF PER DAY
Zuckerberg’s wardrobe GOOD DECISIONS

DECISIONS

LEAF TRUNK BRANCH No real
risk Some risk, but can be mitigated Big risk for project, team or company

LEAF TRUNK BRANCH te󰇧󰇲 󰈨󰈥ci󰈧󰇪󰈤
yo󰇻 󰈧󰈥󰈝id󰇪 DA󰈉󰈎 Some risk, but can be mitigated Big risk for project, team or company No real risk

Pla 󰈂 3
DACI

D
A
C
I
PPROVER

D
A
C
I
RIVER

D
A
C
I
ONTRIBUTORS

D
A
C
INFORMED

DACI

Driver, Approver,
Contributors, Informed

Impact

Options, pros and cons…

TRANSPARENTALIGNED TIMELY
DECISIONS

Pla 󰈂 4

Learn RETROSPECTIVE Improve to󰈢 󰇰
󰈜 󰇺e

FIXING THINGS BEFORE THEY HAPPEN

FIXING THINGS BEFORE THEY HAPPEN
TRAVEL INTO THE PAST

FIXING THINGS BEFORE THEY HAPPEN
Dif󰈇󰇪󰈦󰈥n󰇹 󰈨ec󰇮 󰇷󰇯o 󰈡s Sho󰇶󰇺c󰇻󰇹󰈤 Ski󰇴 󰇪󰈁t󰇶󰈜 󰈤te󰇴󰈤

FIXING THINGS BEFORE THEY HAPPEN
TRAVEL INTO THE PAST

FIXING THINGS BEFORE THEY HAPPEN
TRAVEL INTO THE FUTURE

Pla 󰈂 4
PRE
MORTEM

STEP 1: PREPARE
WHAT COULD…

STEP 1: PREPARE WHAT COULD…
SLOW US DOWN?

STEP 1: PREPARE WHAT COULD…
MAKE US NERVOUS?

STEP 1: PREPARE WHAT COULD…
HAPPEN?

STEP 2: SET THE STAGE
S M C 3/2019

STEP 2: SPLIT THE GROUP
SUCCESS GROUP FAILURE GROUP

STEP 2: SPLIT THE GROUP
SUCCESS GROUP FAILURE GROUP WIN FAIL

SUCCESS GROUP FAILURE GROUP WINFAIL
STEP 3: CROSS EXAMINE

STEP 4: VOTE AND PLAN
1 2 3 CHANGE IN PLAN

RIGHT
PLAYS
THE

Product Manager Designer Dev Manager
2 Collaborative Editing Team T S Sue joined 4 S 2 3 T The Confluence Years

Frustration

Project
Poster
Collaborative Editing

DACI

Pre-mortem

SOFTWARE TESTS

AUTOMATED SOFTWARE TESTS

TEAM TESTS

Pla 󰈂 5 HEALTH MONITOR
TEAM

Di󰇧g󰇳󰈣󰈤e y󰈢󰇼󰇶 󰇺e󰇧m

8 BALANCED TEAM FULL TIME
OWNER SHARED UNDERSTANDING VALUES AND METRICS PROOF OF CONCEPT ONE-PAGER DEPENDENCIES VELOCITY Checkpoint for better Team Health

FULL TIME OWNER

BALANCED TEAM

TEAM HEALTH MONITOR Di󰇧g󰇳󰈣󰈤is PLAYS
Med󰇮 󰈛󰇯 󰈡e

FULL TIME OWNER Project Kickoff
BALANCED TEAM SHARED UNDERSTANDING VALUES AND METRICS DACI Roles and Responsibilities Demo Trust Elevator Pitch Project Poster Empathy Mapping Goals, Signal, and Measures Trade off Sliders

Collaborative Simple Transformative Experienced- Focused
YOU’RE NOT

Team Playbook
YOUR COMPANY’S

TEAMS
PROJECTS
PROBLEMS
ARE
DIFFERENT

PROBLEM IDENTIFY GET S%*T DONE
NOW GO AND MIKE CANNON-BROOKES, CO FOUNDER ATLASSIAN PLAY FIND IT SOLVE

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