Dominic Price Atlassian Team

I want to be intrigued beyond measure! To intrigue here's what I'd say: "Hey upper manager I've heard you're focused on (pick one of more of the following): * Generating more value * Controlling costs * Engaging the people who work for you so they There's this thing called being agile, that if done well gets us more value…

Micky, hot topic and great question. SAFe has many great ideas as do many of the other agile frameworks. There's no single one size fits all way of working however scaling agile does need some kind of structure, that includes:- * shared ways of engaging other teams * shared and agreed to language * congruence between the…

Every organisation is different so there will be many ways for this to succeed. One way is to harness the energy and passion your people already have. Find those most passionate about being more agile and give them all the help you can to make them successful. Then you and they can showcase their success to encourage…

Thanks Fadoua. Brief is always a challenge for me ;-) Agile is the ability to quickly and favourably adapt to your environment. The manifesto does a great job of sharing the spirit and philosophy in a succinct way. I've also seen agile being used out-of-context, being that is doesn't represent the manifesto. Teams I've…

Mate. People are going to think I paid you to plant that question :-) Because YES! The Team Playbook can serve as an excellent bridge into agile, and as a complement to established agile practices. You'll even find some standard agile practices in the Playbook (stand-ups, retrospectives, and demos) because pretty much any…

Thanks for sharing your experience and ideas. Very much appreciated. I also agree that you need a culture around openness and willingness to share the good and the bad, to actually make the right progress on this.

Angela, we purposely published the Team Playbook to be tool agnostic. That said, lots of teams do benefit from tracking results, actions, and updates, in a tool. Helps for sharing, follow up and driving continual improvement. So if you are a Confluence customer, you get the templates in Cloud or Server for free. In…

Have some fun with it Georgina, and do let us know how you get on. We love hearing feedback from users. Pre-mortem is a tricky play. It requires head, heart, and hands, and not everyone is comfortable doing that, so Kudos to you for trying and persevering. 

haha...it's not related. This is a genuine story from one of our program managers

Thanks for the question. When I've run the play myself, I tend to find the "failure" camp comes up with typical and common risks or themes. What I challenge the "success" camp to look for, is positive amplification. When it works, you should get different themes in from each camp. The "success" camp come back with some…

Project Poster video

Lars, thanks for the question. We've found our teams tend to start with the meta level Project Poster, with their high level vision, purpose and job to be done. Project posters are most useful when: * You are starting a project from the problem definition or envisioning phase * The project spans multiple teams or more than…

For anyone wanting more info, there is a webinar explaining more and some tips of how to get started; https://www.atlassian.com/webinars/software/team-playbook-more-guidance-less-process