how do members use the team plays?

alison.eyring

hi. I'm new to this group and interested to learn how members use the team plays? 

Michael Karl_u7g4yw

Hi Alison. We did a network-play some weeks ago. It was run by an external consultant and actually not an atlassian teamplay, but very similar.

We had a board with post-its, representing the teams/companies our team has to interact with. Our team was represented by a post-it in the middle. We had bands normally used for gift-wrapping in green, yellow and red and used them to represent the connections and their quality to the other post-its or teams/company respectively. Green symbolized 'good', yellow 'fair' and red 'poor'. Sometimes connections were symbolized by two or oven by all three colors, because some connections vary from poor to good in a given period of time, sometimes depending on topics or on individuals.

When the big picture on the board was finished and agreed on, we prioritized the connections. We put important connections with poor quality top of our 'to improve' list. Then we discussed the next steps how to improve connections. Here are some points:

- mindset: always make respect for others your personal priority

- change of perspective can always lead to a better understanding

- try to get to know people you have to interact with better

- set up restrospective meetings to improve workflows and communication

- if neccessary, set up a commonly accepted work-agreemant between individuals and teams