Christine P. Dela Rosa Atlassian Team

Ooh I'm interested to see how folks interact with the (now more accessible) documentation. Kudos to you for making all of these processes more clear as you never know who wasn't clear or who had a different idea of a prorocess before!

Love to hear that meeting efficiency happen, @Brant Schroeder!

Hi, @SELAM NIGATU and welcome to the Teamwork Lab. We try to support each other when experimenting or trying new ways of working. Feel free to post a discussion or question about working with your team. Or, if you have tips to share, feel free to write an article where the group can benefit from your experience :)

I like the immediacy of your "writing up norms." Documentation at any time is good, but doing so, so quickly, really makes an impact I think. Great stuff, @Mike Hunsberger !

Totally. Check-ins and status updates are great ways to bring alignment with teams! Have you written up observations or thoughts outside of regular rituals? Something you aren't expected to write up but do write up because you have thoughts that might be of value to others? It's not a common thing folks do but a great…

Yes, @Brant Schroeder! I think showing appreciation can still include a way to call out what happened while keeping energy forward-moving. 

Hi @Jonathan V_ - you can check out the full Play here - Ritual Reset! On that^ page you can find links to Confluence and Trello templates, and per @Lisa Yeager's note, you can customize the templates to what your team specifically needs.

Thanks for sharing this, @Summer Hogan! After have such rich conversation I'm so glad (and it sounds like your teammates are, too), that the value of from the Agility Health Radar was documented. 🙂 Every team is different, but for many of the teams I've been on, "if it's not documented it's not real." That's a bit more…

This example gets at the heart of sharing observations impromptu, @Jonathan V_! We often wait for a formal time to provide analysis but I like that you were able to share thoughts closer to when the pattern was happening in real time. 

Ooooh, I like! I think there's a lot of decisions or even themes that arise when you look through conversations that we lose without saving the chats. Great idea, @vikram! 

Ooh, what's an example of something you've documented this week (or at least recently) that are not part of your day-to-day role?

What a great use case, @Andy Gladstone. My knee-jerk reaction is documentation that people access on a rolling basis. But directing thoughts to specific people is really smart, too! I imagine that personal notes carry more weight, too.

What a combo of a ritual--a meeting to do housekeeping cleanup, where one small activity impacts many others. I love it!

Absolutely, @Tinker Fadoua. I think interesting to see which alternate pathway people take here in this discussion thread. Should a team provide async updates in a messaging chat tool or do you provide updates where there's long-term documentation in a place like Word, PP, or Confluence as you say? I prefer the latter, but…

The status meeting!!! @Chrissy Clements yes those are one of the first targets for finding alternative ways to getting in sync--Atlas and other async tools included.

Ooh, that's a good use case, @Rilwan Ahmed. You don't have to be in charge of the meeting to remove the meeting from your calendar. As an attendee, we have agency too.

Nice! How did teammates respond this week (or most recently) with this tactic, @Rilwan Ahmed ?

All we ask is an attempt. We get that trying something that feels very different for a work culture can be especially hard. So if you give it a shot and it doesn't work, let us hear about that! My hope is that the attempt will be a positive experience regardless of how successful you find adding a note of appreciation. So…

An apology and appreciation combo proven also effective. I also think the apology was on circumstance vs your team's fault per se. Nice, @Paul Wiggers! 

Yep, still going on @Missy Downer!

I really like that this post shows an attempt at different spots that didn't work out. Because experiments shouldn't work 100% of the time. And @Tinker Fadoua if you don't find a new spot to work, that's okay, too! This was more to see if a change of environment would be helpful from time to time. So if it's not, then you…

I feel that, @G subramanyam. It's like an ongoing meeting in Confluence, except async--sometimes by yourself, sometimes with others. 

Oooooh I like that you do the 4Ls impromptu sometimes. Curious @Brant Schroeder - was it a natural adjustment to run the Play without a typical cadence? Or was an adjustment not even necessary?

So exciting that you've been so dedicated, @Brant Schroeder! I'm putting your article on my reading list :) We have in our records that you're on the article review stage of the 5-step program. If you're ready for step 2 of the program, let me know and I'll email you the quiz link for the next step.

Cutting long meetings down is just as great as cutting short meetings out! Also, I like that your action was interactive with your teammates. It made them participants, active in shortening that live sync time :)

Interesting twist, @G subramanyam! I think recognize that asking teammates to have control of what you believe is theirs to control, is essentially you acknowledging they have autonomy. That makes sense and I'm glad you got good reactions :)

First and foremost, happy birthday, @Summer Hogan. And with as much positive energy, I really like that taking that poll with the recurring meeting today inspired a review of other meetings. Keep the momentum going! 

12 points, @Andy Gladstone! Talking about this and seeing the before/after visual are two different things. Thank you for sharing the impact on your own calendar!

Great distinction, and in turn, great way to test whether a live meeting is helpful or superfluous.

Honestly, I'd love to see that if I were in a meeting with you lol. Feel free to drop screen grabs ;)