team agreement

By Manuel Pais & Matthew Skelton - In the new remote-first and hybrid workplace, many organizations are struggling to catch up with new tooling and ways of working. Many are discovering for the first time that the physical office was covering up poorly defined teams and poorly defined areas of focus, threatening their DevOps transformation efforts and the overall health and success of their business. In this talk, learn how the Team API can be an effective tool to improve the experience of teams that need to interact in a remote setting. What information do they need? Where can they reach us? How can we help them? And how can we evolve the Team API to reduce misunderstandings and turn confrontational situations into productive, valuable insights? The authors of the acclaimed book Team Topologies - Matthew Skelton and Manuel Pais - explain and then simulate the use of the Team API pattern using a role play scenario between two teams. They show how an evolving Team API can help to turn confrontations into positive interactions, clarifying expectations and helping teams to work effectively in a remote-first or hybrid context. In their new book, Remote Team Interactions Workbook, published by IT Revolution, Matthew Skelton and Manuel Pais, coauthors of the highly popular Team Topologies, provide proven patterns for a successful remote-first approach to teams. Using simple tools for dependency tracking and patterns from Team Topologies, such as the Team API, organizations will find that well-defined team interactions are key to effective IT delivery in the remote-first world.

A working agreement is a common set of expectations that a team creates to capture how they will work together and engage with each other. For many collocated teams, this is a valuable asset. However, the team working agreement becomes even more critical when team members are working remotely. Depending on the team or phase…

Collaboration asks more of us than other kinds of teamwork.

Different situations require different decision-making processes within teams and there are a variety of ways that decisions can be made. The Team Decision Matrix helps you and your team know when to use which decision method.

How do you collaborate as a team? How do you communicate, share information, resolve conflicts or make decisions? Clarify key issues in a structured way –

At Workplace, we believe that people, not just technology, will define the future of work.

In this adapted excerpt from A Radical Enterprise: Pioneering the Future of High-Performing Organizations by Matt K. Parker, we explore some of the practices that successful radically collaborative organizations leverage. A radically collaborative practice is any practice that helps an organization achieve a state of radical collaboration—in which teams are autonomous, relationships are deficiency gratifying […]

Use Delegation Poker to clarify who’s responsible for what and to what level. This is a method where you can encourage employee engagement through controlled self-organization and clarified value and decision-making.

In this episode of our Rebellious Practices blog series we will discuss the topic of decision making. Most of us are used to either top-down, authoritarian decision making (by far the most used form w

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Individuals and teams crave the ability to execute their work without interference or complication. So instead of isolating, what should a division do when they feel their competence, relatedness, and/or their autonomy threatened?