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DOM PRICE • @DOMPRICE
What Awesome Sauce Tastes Like
BEN CROTHERS • @BENCROTHERS
Getting & Keeping Your Teams Healthy... the Atlassian Way
The following information is presented as-is, and does not guarantee success, riches, fame and glory. Dominic Price and Benjamin Crothers are not real medical doctors, nor are they to be taken seriously, really. Adoption of their suggestions may lead to unpredictable side effects, like, oh anything from high-fives to random jazz hands to spontaneous combustion. May not actually be true.
MEDICAL DISCLAIMER
U N H E A LT H Y T E A M S
What we’ll cover
T H E H E A LT H M O N I T O R
A C T I V I T Y: R U N O N E O N Y O U R S E L F
Y O U R T U R N
Great intention… Great people… Great energy… We shipped…
No clear owner Team never gelled Strategy was fuzzy No clear timelines
Unnecessary hacks
From one project to the next.
Different processesMaking it harder for team members to swap to other teams.
Knock-on effects
Clunky workarounds just become ‘the way we do things around here’.
What this means across the company
Confidence
Confidence in building…
The right team
The right way
The right thing
The right time
A recipe for success
Full-time owner Balanced team Shared understanding Value and metrics
End-to-end demo Readme Dependencies Velocity
1
2
5
7
6
3
4 8
1 2 3 4 5 76 8RECIPE
WHAT WORKS FOR YOU
Teamwork
Communication
Tracking
Definition of done
Quality checking
Ownership Decision-making Fun
Doing what it takes to achieve that success
WHAT WORKS FOR YOU
Teamwork
Communication
Tracking
Definition of done
Quality checking
Ownership Decision-making Fun
Doing what it takes to achieve that success
HEALTH MONITOR
1 2 3 4 5 76 8
Full-time owner
Balanced team
Shared understanding
Value and metrics
End-to-end demo
Readme
Dependencies
Velocity
Tracking health… measuring at checkpoints
CHECKPOINTS 1 2 3 4 5
Over
coaching sessions
200
Over
people coached
800
An amazing
relationships saved ;)∞
We wouldn’t have shipped Bitbucket Snippets if it wasn’t for the health monitor.
M I K E M E L N I C K I , H E A D O F D E V TO O L S E N G I N E E R I N G
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Hop up on the bed…
Get into a pair (or 3) Write the 8 health areas on a page Rate your team for each attribute (red, amber or green) Discuss with each other why you rated each attribute each colour
Activity time: Do a health monitor together
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2
3
4
Full-time owner Balanced team Shared understanding Value and metrics
1 End-to-end demo Readme Dependencies Velocity
5
2 6
3 7
4 8
The 8 attributes:
Pro tips…
Regular check-ups
Pick 2 areas that will impact the most, and focus on them first.
Stakeholder struggles?Use the health monitor as a discussion point.
Go for impact
Build it into your team’s cadence, and make it natural.
Grab yours to feel healthy
Use our 8 healthy team attributes, or (as a team) come up with your own.
Let us knowWe’d like to know how you and your team went with it.
Try it
Thank you
DOM PRICE • @DOMPRICE BEN CROTHERS • @BENCROTHERS