Video of the presentation is available here http://vimeo.com/28001362

1. Building High Performing Teams
[to deliver awesome business outcomes]
Nish Mahanty

2. Conflicting processes,
motivations and tools
http://dev2ops.org/blog/2010/2/22/what-is-devops.html

3. “What you’ve got there is a people problem”

4. A framework for
building high performing teams
who can “Get Stuff Done”

6. High Performance / Hewitt Best Employer Survey
76%
MYOB Live Accounts
MYOB LiveAccounts

7. Deconstructing the problem

8. Building high performing teams
to deliver awesome business outcomes

9. Building high performing teams
who know the business
to deliver awesome business outcomes

10. Building high performing teams
who know how to work together
to deliver awesome business outcomes

11. Building high performing teams
who want
to deliver awesome business outcomes

12. Building high performing teams
empowered to change things
to deliver awesome business outcomes

13. Building high performing teams
who know the business,
know how to work together,
are empowered to change things,
and who want
to deliver awesome business outcomes

14. know the business

15. Vision, brand, customer
values, goals, satisfaction data
strategies
KPIs based on business goals
quarterly results, annual goals
market research
double jacking, usability testing
business value of each story,
business impact of each decision value chain
Extra focus for distributed teams

16. want to deliver

17. Video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6XAPnuFjJc 6.11
http://www.danpink.com/articles

18. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6XAPnuFjJc
http://www.danpink.com/articles

19. Video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6XAPnuFjJc
http://www.danpink.com/articles

23. know how to work together

24. Ranked Discriminators of
Most and Least Effective Knowledge Teams
Trust
Goodwill/Cooperation
Clarity of Purpose
Information Available
Inspirational Leadership
Group Brainstorming
Respect for Individuals
Conflict Management
Team Learning
Autonomy
Project Leadership
Alignment of Values
Climate for Creativity
Equipment & Facilities
Appropriate Pressure
Market/Client Awareness
Scientific/Tech. Expertise
http://www.kteams.com.au/page/research_basis_for_ktep.html
http://www.infoq.com/presentations/teamwork-an-individual-skill

25. Chris Avery:
Building Teams
align goals
make & keep agreements
clear direction & purpose

28. Build a common vision

29. empowered to change things

30. “A bad system, will defeat a good
person, every time.”
W.E. Deming

31. Empower the team to change things

32. Hiring...
Fit
Motivation
Skills

33. Effective teams need effective
individuals...
7 Habits
GTD
Know Yourself

34. Distributed teams...
communication channels
face to face
build trust

35. We’re Hiring
@nishmahanty
nish.mahanty@myob.com