I think my team should try out Team Poster Play because I think in our company we have a problem recognizing who is who. If any employee has a problem and doesn't know who among the team members is, they should ask for help in solving it.
I'm a QA-manager in a devOps-team responsible for maintaining and expanding a CMS for the editorial staff of several regional newspapers. We rely on the manufacturer of the CMS, a staff of developers (working as a service provider for us) responsible for a content-delivery-network as a middleware between backend (the CMS itself) and frontend (websites, apps) and also a web-hosting-company. We get our tasks from a group of project-managers who act as "men in the middle" between our devs-staff and the editorial staff (sometimes also digital sales, advertising, marketing). We use JIRA Software for both feature-request- and bug-issues.
We work together in this setting for three years now, but still I think at least the Work Agreement Play would prove very useful for us, because we seem to be lacking this exactly. We need to find agreements and stand behind them together rather than dictating the ways we work onto each other. We are going to set up a workshop this summer to archive such an agreement and we might use some of Atlassian's advices as guidelines, maybe even the whole playbook.
The other plays might prove useful too, especially to discover gaps in understanding each other's roles and responsibilities.
The Network of Teams play looks immensely helpful to coordinate between the moving groups of an organization to ensure everyone is moving in the same direction!
One Team Shaping Play that my Operations Team could benefit from running today is the "Clear Roles and Responsibilities" play. This play focuses on clearly defining and aligning the roles and responsibilities within the team, which can enhance communication, collaboration, and overall team effectiveness.
Overall, this play helps in creating a structured and well-functioning team, where each member understands their role in achieving the team's objectives, resulting in a more effective and high-performing Operations Team.
It is probably useful to get the roles and responsibility-play down, but most important for us is to get the work-agreement (play) done. It's important to have team-wide or even inter-team agreements on how we how collaberate. We already did the network play initiated by a consultant. It showed us where we need to improve relationships, one helpful thing when you lack respect for other teams or team-members can be a change of perspective - try walking in their shoes. Also I used my 25th work anniversary to invite some formerly unknown colleagues to pizza and softdrinks to get to know them. That was a result of a "dotted line" in the network-play.
The team I am on is small and all of us are in different states. Roles and Responsibilities is a teams shaping play that would help us since we are also in different time zones.
The "Daily Stand-up Meeting" is the team-shaping play that my team may gain from using today in Jira. By delivering status updates, discussing progress, and locating any roadblocks or difficulties, it enhances communication, alignment, and cooperation.
We work in a group of 5+ specialist to get a 3PL warehouse going for a large Pharma company. Having that „working agreements“ would have helped a great deal in the vacation time to have either postpone certain types of work while the responsible is in vacation or better plan the vacation to have good coverage of the work required to
identify gaps and errors
develope resolutions
put them to test and document them
put them into the relase cycle
Without it we were not able to maintain the constant flow of resolution that was expected from the business stakeholders for some 4 weeks during HyperCard.
The benefit of roles and responsibilities would come to us good for our team, since we are a new team and we It would help to better understand our roles, responsibilities, etc.
So in this way we would avoid future conflicts between us. In addition, the fact of making a team poster will help us to give more clarity and a more concise objective for our Projects.
My 8-people team would benefit from the team poster because it helps remind us what our purpose as a team is and what goals we want to accomplish. I'll give it a try.
My team would benefit from all of these plays, particularly with recent changes taking place. I would love to see us run the Network of Teams play sooner than later. I think our role in the organization is often misunderstood, and other teams we should be working with don't see the benefit we bring or know how to engage us. That being said, recent changes I mentioned, would require that we run the roles and responsibilities play first, just so we as a team understand ourselves better before repairing our network.
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Our team has endured quite a bit of change over the past 8 months and would benefit greatly from running the Roles and Responsibilities play. As our business transitions through the implementation of more efficient tools, a review of our current roles and responsibilities would allow us to align our personal roles and responsibilities with team and business goals.
Our team can benefit from Roles & Responsibilities as we are a new team that is merging into one global project team. Defining the roles and responsibilities of our newly developed team will allow us to start these projects without a snag. This will give each member better clarity before laying out project scopes.
I believe the Roles and responsibilities play would be most effective for my team. Often times we become less efficient in our roles due to not having a clear division of responsibilities among the group. If we could sit and down and clearly define each other's positions and all it entails I believe this will make us a much more cohesive team.
Roles and Responsibilities - I believe this would really help because a lot of the time team members have an expectation or misunderstanding of what other members are doing or should be doing. This play is helpful at every stage of project or in general to get a clearer understanding of what everyone is doing.
Our team could benefit the most from the Roles and Responsibilites Play. I can see that the whole team is winging it in terms of who should do what and who's actually responsible. This all eventually comes down to our team lead who is then made responsible for everything.
I believe it would be easier for us to work together and we would work better with other teams as well if we would be clear on roles and responsibilities.
My team could best benefit from the Team Network Play. We have several remote teams that are highly interdependent and running this play would help the teams better deliver to one another.
Our teams have good relationships and are pretty solid, but I think this would greatly enhance how we transition in process tech between R&D groups by better defining how we like to receive information.
As we will embark on a new project-journey I think we will benefit from running the play of roles and responsibilities. As we all are new to each-other it could also be a great way to break the ice and get to know each-other a little bit better.
The Network of Teams play is important for helping teams work together, both inside and outside our company. As we start working with more enterprise customers, more people and teams become part of each project, making this idea even more valuable.
Honestly, all of the team shaping plays would help! I am part of small product team with a network of micro-enterprise teams so if I had to choose one team shaping plays it would be the Network of Teams. I think this would really help visualize the team interconnectedness and where those connections are strong and where the connections need some extra love.
Our new Steering Co would greatly benefit from all of these plays, we are certainly still at the forming and storming stage and I feel currently in our very dynamic and pressing work environment, we are trying to run before we can walk. These plays will definitely help set us up for better alignment, direction and collaborating more effectively as a team.
I think all of these plays are equally helpful. It's a great practice to revisit each play regularly after abt. 6 months as teams are a living and breathing organism.
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