Christine P. Dela Rosa Atlassian Team

Clutch gif, @Dave LIAO . Love your insight there. It works for meetings, it works for projects, and it works for all work things. If there isn't a clear goal for holding a meeting, having a practice, or doing anything related to work, then what's the point? Literally, people won't know because that point wasn't established…

LOL. The meetings to figure out what the meetings were about. And I agree with you, @G subramanyam , tools help us with reminders (especially templates) coupled with the habit-building of using the same effective practices in utilizing those tools.

Yeah. For those who really like status meetings, I'd ask: what is the purpose of the meeting and is that necessary to do live? Because you're right, @John Funk, if it's simply to know what's happening, what's the value beyond what you get from Jira tickets or other async reporting?

Hi, @Dave LIAO! You're the exact kind of leader that belongs in this group. Welcome welcome :) 

Hi @Kevin Tuei ! That's definitely a topical concern given the last year, and one that will remain even after some companies return to physical offices. Because even though we can return to previous routines, the fact that some companies have made determinations about which employees should work from home and which need…

@Andrew Kendris thanks for this! I try my best to see how our customers are feeling and I have to say that this has come up, so you're not alone! At the heart of "natural collaboration" as you put it, is this idea of organic ideation and unstructured collaboration. We too are experimenting in this area. One of the things…

@Hi @Gonchik Tsymzhitov - I do have the same advice for distributed teams. I think all of these concepts can still be applied to colocated or remote meetings. In the latter, dominant voices are even more difficult to facilitate because reading the room takes even more energy over video or audio-only calls. It might be even…

@Walter Buggenhout you're really resonating with why dedicated time for these discussions/Plays are so important. When I facilitate sessions, the most uncomfortable part of the discussions can feel the least productive to those who don't run Plays regularly. But really, just acknowledging that something exists IS a big…

@Jack Brickey - if there are any additional tips related to Team Playbook (or team session/workshop blockers in general), please drop more ideas here! And if there's a ton more we've missed or others resonate with, maybe we should do another article on your additional notes ;)

Awesome, @Prashant Sangappa Shivashimpi Please email me (cdelarosa@atlassian.com) 90-minute time slots when you and your team are available at the end of this week. Just want to make sure we have an available facilitator during your alotted time. Also, please confirm that your entire team will be available to attend.

At this time, it is not available widely and may not be. Since retros are more urgent than that, take a look at my Nov 12 post to see if any of those ideas are worth trying, @Malka ! I'd be interested to hear what you think :)

Hi @Sajit Nair - +1 to that note. Documentation on working agreements, roles, and progress updates is especially important with distributed teams. And yes, bringing more human elements to a transactional-leaning digital world is another key thing to remember when bringing cohesion...because, team cohesion isn't just about…

Thanks for the feedback, @Lauren Pennisi. For posterity, I'm cc-ing @Becky Rubenstein, our Team Playbook Lead to flag that this is an area of interest for you (and others).

Hi @Lauren Pennisi - I went to look for the public plug-in link and it looks like it's only available for some Confluence instances. I'm sorry! This is a big disappointment for me as well. However, I didn't want to leave you empty-handed. Here are other suggestions of bringing data on the same platform. * Embedding…

@Brant Schroeder glad you like this! We're trying to see if this kind of material is better suited for Community, where users can engage each other directly. But once we get a little more info, we absolutely will use that data to inform where things should go. Up on the Team Playbook site is a strong contender! cc: @Becky…

@Marshall Walker Lee totally agree. Having a designated scribe so that you, as the facilitator, can focus on facilitating, is ideal for being present in your facilitator role. What's tough for me, and I'd be interested if this resonates, is that note-taking can be part of facilitation, too. When I run Retros for example,…

Absolutely, @Fabian A_ Lopez _Community Leader - Argentina_ Florida_ California_! Accountability and trust from multiple directions is a little less obvious for those who relied on visible observations for that, and so we have to lean more on trust now as well as find new ways for accountability.

Jamey and John covered your first question, but I'll add my $1.99 on your second question, @nina_schmidt... * From a collaboration perspective, I can't believe how critical it is for respect to come up so profoundly. From a couple hundred years ago through more contemporary stories, the price for admission is acknowledging…

@Brittany Joiner - if ever we do one featuring onboarding we'll keep you in mind. But I'll also say that in our research, outside of the podcast, we learned that onboarding is really hard for most companies. In fact, in research you can read about at atlassian.com/open/research, we learned that onboarding is one of the…

@ohseongkooi - not sure if you meant to put context around your comment, but if we're sharing links, here's the link to the Teamistry podcast. https://www.atlassian.com/podcast Have a good one, Christine Dela Rosa

Hi @Danny ! Of course. Next one comes out on Monday ;) Our process for selecting each idea evolved over time. At first, we had different themes we hoped to capture and tried to look for stories that embodied them. But we quickly realized that we couldn't work from that direction as it's not easy to know how teams worked…

Happy to connect, @Brittany Joiner ! The most surprising challenge for me was how quickly stories change. After preliminary research, we had a great angle into a story, but then upon interviewing people on the team, the story changed to something exciting but different than we expected, and then after interviewing subject…

The "Saving Fukushima" episode is one of my favorites of the season, @carolyn french ! The US women's soccer team angle is interesting, because it's not necessarily about the gameplay and more about their fight for equal pay. What other ideas do you have that we can look into? -Christine Dela Rosa

Hahaha, I believe the sentiment behind your answer is that you wish this was out earlier. Do I have that right, @Sumit_Bhutani If so, we didn't want to do a podcast for the sake of jumping on the podcast wagon. We wanted to make sure we had the right show concept, and then later, the right stories to tell. In fact, we're…

@Daniel Ebers! So glad you're into it =D The Extras page definitely has some gems, including cards that embody the superpowers featured in every episode. The site is meant to be simple (e.g. not a ton of sizes for different download preferences). But because we made these for you, we can definitely send you a file in…

Thanks so much everyone! We're trying to wrap up interviews by end of this week (April 17), so if anyone else can make an interview happen between now and then, awesome! Otherwise, know that those who have participated are definitely influencing our work directly...which, sadly, doesn't always happen at this level at most…

Welcome @Helen Griffiths {Capgemini}! Just wanted to shout out that I loved the Atlassian Team Playbook concept prior to giving it a go, but sitting in my first health monitor was transformational. I think being a part of it with your team will get you even more excited. Good luck!

There's a section for "game plans," a collection comprising a health monitor type + specific plays. https://www.atlassian.com/team-playbook/examples And we want to hear from YOU! What situations does your team need a game plan for? Incident management? New hire on-boarding? End-of-quarter reporting? Releases? Drop a…

Just spitballing: you can try everyone filling in the Elevator Pitch template at the same time and then compare each blank section at a time. Or, maybe you don't even use the template. Maybe everyone writes their own elevator pitches and everyone compares full pitches against other full pitches. Having discussions about…

You can use any of the Atlassian products before, during, or after plays. During plays for example, you might want to use session templates to take notes (e.g. project health monitor, experience canvas, DACI, retrospective). Once you have clear action items, you can continue to add tasks via Confluence, or as alternative…