The team responsible for the collection of ustwo Watch Faces for Android Wear share 11 months worth of teamwork learnings.

1. TEAMWORK
LEARNINGS
by the Android Wear Team

2. Wear Team Retrospective – March 2015

3. Wear Team Retrospective – March 2015
March April May June July August September October November December January
First Brief
Toph + Josh has joined
API unstable
EAP drop
First watch faces
Got devices!
Gyppsy initial research
Delivered first watch face
Introduction to client
Sent source code to
Google
Sketched basic watch
faces in London
Google I/O
Moto 360 was not
working
Client loves to working
with us
Team visited Google in
Mountain View
Designing early
Advanced watch faces
Breakout Framework
Mitch in Nashville
Rimar hosted sketching
sessions.
Too many meetings
Team tentions
Confusion about delivery
date
Devices was not working
Google Q/A
Not bundle P.2 watch
faces
No time
Not trust QA team
On boarding team
members problem
QA team changed
Team discussion with
Max
Team member left
Branded watch faces
C-Release pushed back
Decided to make
frameworks
Frameworks
improvement
Making Wear HUB and
Behind the scenes video
On boarding new team
members
Teammate’s vacation
API more stable
Launch!
Social media sharing
Toffer in Malmö
wear.ustwo.com
Design Guideline
New wear hub
No clear expectation
from Google
Teammate left
PROJECT TIMELINE
Happiness
Stress

4. PRINCIPLES
Wear Team Retrospective – March 2015

5. Wear Team Retrospective – March 2015
HAPPINESS OVER STRESS
While we value the structure provided by timelines and
deliverables, we value the multiplicative effect of addressing
human needs more.
Individual happiness, clarity, and sense of meaning creates an
inherent drive. A team of driven people works at a higher velocity
and is more able to adjust to changing deadlines and
deliverables. Something done right is better than something
done one time or to a budget. Without a team focus on emotions,
stress and friction cannot be transformed into happiness and
positive forward momentum.

6. FLEXIBILITY OVER STRUCTURE
While we value the dependability of rules, we value the instinct to
continuously and dramatically change our process more.
Process is only a means to an end and needs to change as the
team and the project evolves. Our process is continuously
validated against common sense and experience.
Wear Team Retrospective – March 2015

7. Wear Team Retrospective – March 2015
US OVER ME
While we value the uniqueness of individuals, we value working
as a team with a common purpose more.
A good idea starts with one person but only the team can bring
meaning to it. We believe that being together, communicating
directly, and providing constant feedback is the best way to build
strong teams and good things. Involving other people in your
work also creates team ownership of the output.

8. Wear Team Retrospective – March 2015
SILLY OVER SERIOUS
We value seriousness but we’ve learnt that working and
continuously looking for silliness is not a mutually exclusive thing.
This team believes in the power of silly and whimsical situations.
We look for silly daily: sometimes it is even more fun to celebrate
the small daily doses of silly rather than a big delivery. At the end,
you can only become silly when taking it seriously.

9. Wear Team Retrospective – March 2015
COLLABORATION OVER HIERARCHY
While we value the simplicity and clarity of group hierarchy, we
value team trust more.
We are aware that hierarchy could be used detrimentally as a
cheap filler for trust. However, we believe in the hierarchy that
highlights our different levels of expertise. We use hierarchy to
empower with trust other team members. It takes time to build
but today trust is the blood that runs within the veins and
diligence of this team’s actions.

10. We value seriousness but we’ve learnt that working and
continuously looking for silliness is not a mutually exclusive thing.
This team believes in the power of silly and whimsical situations.
We look for silly daily: sometimes it is even more fun to celebrate
the small daily doses of silly rather than a big delivery. At the end,
you can only become silly when taking it seriously.
Wear Team Retrospective – March 2015
COURAGE OVER COMFORT
While we value a laid back environment, we value the courage to
be honest with each other more.
This team values comfort only when it doesn’t prevent us to speak
our minds honestly. All the actions individuals or teams take within
this team are always done with good intentions. Hence,
discrepancies to the consequences of these actions are
communicated with nothing else but honesty. Other than that will
be disrespectful to the individual and to the whole team.

11. We always aim for the highest quality output but if when doing
so we miss the bigger picture, we will consider it a failing.
Keeping attention to detail while thinking two steps ahead into
thinking “what if?” and “what’s Next” is how we keep
perspective.
Wear Team Retrospective – March 2015
PRINCIPLES OVER OUTPUT

12. Wear Team Retrospective – March 2015

13. Wear Team Retrospective – March 2015
THANKS