Reface Your Team Space

Patrick Kua

patrick.kua@thoughtworks.com

THE AGENDA

• Introduction• Questioning Style• Objectives and Expectations• Creativity Whiteboarding Exercise• Team Space Brainstorm• Discussion• Conclusion

MY OBJECTIVES AND EXPECTATIONS• Understanding Effectiveness• Collaborating Over Experiences• Two way street• You get what you put in

YOUR OBJECTIVES AND EXPECTATIONS

- Let’s find out what they are…

What is Effectiveness?What is Effectiveness?

““Ability to achieve stated Ability to achieve stated goalsgoals or or objectivesobjectives, judged in terms , judged in terms of both output and impact.” of both output and impact.”

WHITEBOARD EXERCISE

Goal: Tell us how your project is going

Purpose of Exercise:• Stimulate Creativity• Hands on experience• Practising Collaboration

Rules:• Show us your ideal team white board• What is your box? Think outside of it• Try anything you want• Be crazy• Consider what people might want to know about your

project• 2 x 20 minute iterations + 2 x 5 minute sharing sessions

WHITEBOARD EXERCISE

LEARNINGS

LET’S MAKE THIS ROOM

MORE EFFECTIVE

PROJECT EXAMPLES

Measuring effectiveness:• What is the goal? Define• How can we achieve the goal? Design +

Implementation• Is it working? Test• Is it still working? Feedback + Refactor

Story Wall

Reclaim Window Space

Inter Building Communication

Per Project

Build Status

YOUR TURN TO SHARE

Project Metric

Summaries

Themed Build Status

Stand Up

Token

Visual Key Process Flows

Calendar of Events

Ambient Noise

EVALUATING ROOM SPACE

• Does anyone (on team or external) use it regularly?

• Is it easy to understand? (elevator pitch)• Is there too much information? • What value is it adding?

Refactoring this...

To this!

WHAT NOW?

• Better practices• Issues when introducing change• What have you learnt?• What things will you try?• Thoughts and statements• Feedback

Discussion & Conclusion