My team is a distributed team, we would definitely benefit from identifying Roles and Responsibilities , agreeing on a Working Agreement and virtual networking though plays.
Our team is not a new team. Several of the members have been there a long time and the other half are recent additions. While I intend to utilize all the plays, the Roles and Responsibilities play and the Working Agreement will provide the most benefit for the team. Our team roles are not clear to everyone on the team and identifying gaps will be most helpful. It will be a great lead in to creating our Working Agreement. In my experience, I find this foundational discussion and agreement to be a productive and collaborative exercise that opens up communication across the team members.
I've never used the playbook, but I see how it can help my small team work with more guidance and transparency. I can also give us more structure to work with on a day to day basis. I think we need to start with the Team Poster Play and then try the next ones.
Roles and Responsibilities. As the team and the project has been evolving, our roles and responsibilities that were articulated early on have changed, but we have not clarified the newer responsibilities, or shared this across the team.
Working Agreement Play would be good to start within the team. This will ensure that everyone on the team is of utmost important and their preferences are listened. Also, everyone will be involved in the views for ways of working going forward and thus motivation is ensured. It will also help to know each other's view.
The team poster play would be massively beneficial to our team. We currently administer on a community basis so each member has no information on the other members. This would fill in a lot of blanks as all we see are blanket message to all community administrators without really knowing where they are based or even their experience.
In learning mode. I like the offer presented in the - how to shape effective teams - of running an extra meeting when alignment is off - "Capture these responsibilities and run an extra meeting to dive deeper into it". Thank you, Cindy
Having a team and working with a company that is almost completely remote; we have to provide support to all teams/departments as efficiently as possible. The goal is that everyone on the team becomes cross trained enough so if anybody is out or busy with another task; anybody can step right in and take care of providing support properly. Making sure and clarifying a list of roles and responsibilities might assist in confirming who on the team has the most expertise on certain topics and might help users reaching out clarity on who would be the best to provide the support. This would also assist on assigning who to teach what topic to others on the team and vice versa to make sure any and everybody can do any and every task at hand.
I must talk with the team before I hold any of these sessions. I will explain the function of each session and let the team decide. Of course, I will put my recommendation, but the team always has the final say.
We are starting to implement agility in our company. We are creating squads, rules and responsibilities and the first projects are also starting to be created. We hope that with this tool and the methodologies linked to it, we can have more transparency in our projects and a much better interaction between the teams. All of these changes, from how we traditionally work today for Jira, should happen in the coming months. When we have the first results I will be able to present more details and some of the gains that we obtain.
The Team Shaping play my team could benefit from is the Working Agreement. I chose this one because the team works in a silo the majority of the time but there are times when crossover occurs but there is no foundation on how we should work together.
Looking forward to applying Roles & Responsibilities as well as Working Agreement. The IT Team is rapidly growing, which is exciting, but it will great to have the entire org understand everyone's roles/responsibilities/working hours as we continue to grow!
Hello everyone. I am part of team which handles deployment and code management. we go in and out for meeting internally and we need to reshape our team for better management of duties. I was amazed to see the tools which organization is giving and you have worked on Pain points of managing the team.
when the team grows and new leader's are hired they sometimes are clueless about working culture of floor. let me give you example Ajay was a team manager in his pervious organization and he has changed his job now to different organization. the people who are working in new organization wants to take help of Ajay and how can they approach him and break the ice.
When working in teams we need to know the Roles and responsibilities . we also need to follow the escalation cycle model for any issue.
I have taken lot of notes from comments and instructor who have designed these courses.
Nothing like humble beginnings, our team is relatively new and I reckon the Team Poster Play would be a fun activity to build the team and help us get to know one another better, before we launch into other Plays. Really great insights and practical insights.
All of them, for sure. While we have a team that "works" well together, we have no true plan or organizational structure in place. All of these will help establish a better working framework.
I cannot overappreciate the importance of Roles and Responsibilities. I think it really helps clarifying responsibilities for the team members, and project stakeholders!
We have a saying here, "everyone pick-up a shovel". Its great for promoting teamwork and everyone wearing many hats however, it has caused a lot of redundancies and some bruised feelings. I think much of this content could be helpful but in particular Roles and Responsibilities. Being clear about who is responsible for what can eliminate the confusion on that. It also will help with communication if someone contributes to the project in a way that overlaps with another's role, they now know who to communicate that update to.
Although we had an overall RACI document. Teams would definitely benefit from running the Roles and Responsibilities play to bring those into the context of the specific project. We'd often be confused or would hesitate, while we sorted out who would do what. Having that RACI doc at the project level would help alleviate that confusion.
I cannot wait to share this experience with my team, as we have been in need of a better structure to openly communicate about direction and change. The format presented makes possible a conversation production without outright conflict.
Me team and I interact with a wide range of teams across a very large organization. We call these other teams "the business" and are mostly on the production shop floor, but there are also some on the admin side.
Interactions are very dynamic and fast-moving, as we all have the same goal: to keep the production line moving. For that reason, a combination of working agreements, network of teams and R&R makes sense for us.
I am looking forward to implementing the team poster and the Roles and Responsibilities in my new team to help in the clarification of responsibiities of all team members and for better focus
In my org we are trying a pilot program at our site as a soft internal launch. There is no documentation and we are all winging it, but I think that with a Team Poster play we could find that missing connection. Our team does not feel united in our goals and I think it is in part because we are building things slowly as the budget comes in and most of our decisions are out of our control. A team poster could help everyone click in to place what their role is in the bigger picture, and maybe a better visualization of that biggerpicture!
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