Christine P. Dela Rosa Atlassian Team

We've heard from many that it's hard to get into the Atlassian Team Playbook without starting off with a good facilitator. So here's your chance... For one month only, mid-November through mid-January, we are ready to make a deal. * Your team gets: an Atlassian facilitator. This includes: * A 20-minute prep session between…

Here's the contest - https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Teamwork-Lab-questions/Nominate-and-vote-for-quot-best-of-the-Teamwork-Lab-November/qaq-p/1875283. It's running for the first 10 days of December. Anyone can nominate a post authored in the Teamwork Lab group. Nominate and vote away!

In October, we began soliciting feedback on the Teamwork Lab. Namely, we wanted to know which type of content you liked (and even that which you didn't like). Read this article for more (and/or to weigh in with your thoughts). Based on feedback, we want to make sure that we incentivize quality contributions to the group.…

Senior researcher, Dr. Mahreen Khan, is here to discuss Atlassian's debut wave of data in Atlassian's "State of Teams" research. Submit your question here between now and Wednesday, 17 November AEST / Tuesday 16 November ET. Context Atlassian's State of Teams research seeks to provide a framework for tracking team health…

Everything we do has a 'cost' and 'savings'. We often forget about the latter, but if we shine a spotlight on savings, I think it could help teams adopt new practices by adding more substance for weekly/monthly celebrations or reporting. Inspiration I saw this concept in action via this post on Reddit. A library…

Icebreakers can set a more casual tone, but sometimes, they also help teams feel more connected to each other because they reveal something personal, help teammates understand each other, etc. Any questions you've used yourself or have heard other teams use counts! 

New prompt to share team practices we like Our popular Dear Work Therapist posts feature member questions, and in response, this group weighs in. We've even cut up short versions to share on social media (like this one featuring a question from Martin or this question from Fadoua. In contrast to focusing our discussion on…

Since this Teamwork Lab group is relatively new, we're still feeling out what members want to see. So we thought we'd run a quick program to help us uncover the types of content that yield the most engagement. Translation: we want to see you generate the engagement you want to see more of for this group. In turn, we…

The September Growth Spurt was so helpful in testing different content in this group, we're doing it again! The details * What: the top 25 most active members in the Teamwork Lab group get to choose either...* 1) a bluetooth enabled portable meditative light and sound therapy speaker (see attached photo), or if you won…

Question submission for this AMA is now closed. Software team members, Ashley Faus + Kelly Drozd, are here to discuss scaling agile across a company. Submit your question here between now and Tuesday, 26 October EST. Context Agile is an approach to work that helps teams develop products, and deliver them to customers…

Unexpected things come up at work. Maybe a project changes its goal mid-course. Maybe scope creep takes over and where you started is not at all where you end. Whatever it is, we can all relate to that "groan" feeling when it inevitably happens. And as change management practitioners, we deal with it. Because it's rare…

Context The team of writers, editors, and strategists that brings you Work Life experimented with a four-day workweek recently. For background on what happened, watch this video. In this event, they held office hours to share results, reflected on lessons learned, and fielded many questions submitted by this group + live…

The team of writers, editors, and strategists that brings you Work Life experimented with a four-day workweek recently. Geographic dates/times below: * October 14 from 2 pm to 3 pm PT * October 14 from 5 pm to 6 pm ET * October 14 from 8 am to 9am AEST * All other time zones may be at night, so we will provide a video…

If you're like me, you'd raise your hand for at least one of these questions. * How many of you work for companies that use internal jargon that only staff use? * How many of you use code words for projects, programs, or temporary teams? * How many of your companies have enough internal acronyms you have or have thought to…

In this edition of 'fortnightly gripes and hacks,' I want to hear from y'all on how your teams come together to accomplish deep work. Thought starters if you need some inspiration * Does your team even come together to do deep work as a team? Why or why not? * Is there a blocker to working as a team when on distributed…

Tell me you care about team health w/o telling me you care about team health. What does that mean? I'd love to know fictitious or real life examples that demonstrate that someone cares about their team's health. It could be a made-up conversation or a conversation that happened in real life, a behavior, a photo taken, etc.…

One thing I struggle with is knowing when to ask for help. I've learned that I tend to underestimate the benefit of asking peers what they might do if they were in a similar situation. Personally, I'd love to see the Teamwork Lab serve as a primary resource for people to turn to when they're stuck AND when they want to…

Drop your questions between now and Tuesday, 28 September EST, when our experts respond to the questions on this page. Featured Atlassian responders: * Philip Braddock - Global ShipIt Lead & Chief of Staff to the CFO, Atlassian * Karen Holst - Global ShipIt Lead & Principal Innovation Lead, Internal Innovation As heard on…

When a company makes a big announcement--could be about a strategic shift, a re-organization in company structure, a change in leadership, the introduction of a new program, etc--what do you think are common searches? This could be a search on a company intranet. Or a search on Google. But for fun, let's make the answers…

Drop your questions between now and Tuesday, 14 September EST, when our experts respond to the questions on this page. Featured Atlassian responders: * Nick Muldoon - Co-CEO - Easy Agile * Paul Slade - Head of Engineering, Experience Platform * Swati Raju - Senior Manager, Engineering * Agnes Ro - Senior…

If you missed the Teamwork Lab's first event, Team Office Hours with Dr. Dom, you're in luck because we have a video recap! View the video and transcript here. Thanks to questions submitted by attendees, Dom answered several questions related on topics that include: * The difference between (all-remote or all-colocated…

Welcome to the Weekly Gripes discussion for the first half of July. Every half month, we will drop our concerns, deadends, pleas for change, etc on a selected topic. This thread will focus on: meetings. Some thought starters: * Is there a way meetings are run that are cause for complaint? * Is there a type of meeting that…

We're a group of experts here. For the first half of August, I'd love to discuss what hacks you have in working through difficult changes. * Do you utilize support networks at work or at home? How do you develop those? * Do you remind yourself of end goals versus temporary states? * Do you make sure to elevate what's on…

Dr. Dom is holding office hours with the Teamwork Lab group. Geographic dates/times below: * August 12 at 4 pm-5 pm PT * August 12 at 7 pm-8 pm EST * August 13 at 9 am AEST * August 13 at 4:30 am - 5:30 am IST He will share his wisdom with those interested in improving the way their teams work. During Office Hours, Dr. Dom…

Welcome to the Fortnightly Gripes discussion for the second half of July. Every half month, we will drop our concerns, deadends, pleas for change, etc on a selected topic. This thread will focus on: annual planning. If you're like Atlassian, your fiscal year just ended in June. Or for many others, your fiscal year…

Hello, Community Teamwork Enthusiasts! My name is Christine Dela Rosa and I am Atlassian's resident Ways of Working expert. I just launched the The Teamwork Lab - a space for members to bounce ideas off of each other, ask questions from people who have been in your situation before, challenge the status quo of your…

Atlassian is looking for your questions on organizational transformation. * We often talk about issues that affect our immediate teams or share best practices on relationship management. * But, we less frequently talk about scaling change across an entire organization, change management communication that involves an…