Teams working on most projects fall into a broad category of either being a Pizza Team or a Jig-saw Puzzle team. A couple of slides explaining the characteristics of these teams and what it is like to be a part of one of these teams

1. Are you part of a
Pizza Team PuzzleTeam

2. The Pizza Team
• Clearly Defined Roles
• Everybody is an Equal
Contributor
• Strong Players
• In Big & Process Driven
Orgs

3. The Jig-Saw Puzzle Team
• Roles are Sort of defined.
• Stepping over each
other’s toes
• Everybody is NOT an
Equal Contributor
• College Projects & Small
Orgs

4. Communicating vs Collaborating
Individual's Tasks vs Team’s Tasks

5. Project Meta-Data Manager
vs
Project / Team Manager

6. A Resource does One Task
A Person can do Many Things
Resources vs People

7. The Marshmallow Challenge
Peter Skillmen

10. The whole is worth more than
the sum of the parts

11. Which of the two teams WIN?

12. Empathy
• Empathy towards Team Members
• Empathy towards your Company
• Empathy towards your Clients

13. Experience = Knowledge
Experience = Wisdom

14. Take Calculated Risks
What’s the impact of Failure
Seek Adrenaline Rush

15. Your Most Memorable Project.
from before 2014

16. Pizza Team vs Puzzle team
• Moving Challenges
• Remain Professionals
• Grow Vertically &
slower
• Short lived teams
• Business as Usual
• Move as ONE
• Become Friends
• Grow Horizontally &
faster
• Stay together for long
• Lots of Fun