What are the ingredients for a high-performing team? Katrina presents four experience reports from four separate Agile projects that all share a common theme – what makes a team great.

1. The Fantastic Four
Experiences from high performing teams
Katrina Clokie
Assurity

2. • Reward systems
• Informal face-to-face communication
• T-shaped cohesion
• The right kind of challenge
• Individual identity

3. Reward systems

9. If your team is using Kanban,
implement a reward system for
structured positive feedback.

10. Informal face-to-face
communication

12. Individuals and interactions
over processes and tools
except when my tool is awesome!

15. Make your tools work for your team,
not your team work through your tools

16. T-shaped cohesion

19. Photoshop credit: Natasha Nath

21. To become T-shaped
all you need to do is
reach out your arms

22. The right kind of challenge

25. If it doesn’t challenge you
it doesn’t change you

27. Individual identity

29. I’m a <job title>
at <organisation>

30. I’m a <job title>
in the <team>
at <organisation>

31. I work in the <team>
at <organisation>

32. • Reward systems
• Informal face-to-face communication
• T-shaped cohesion
• The right kind of challenge
• Individual identity

33. Thanks for listening…
Katrina Clokie
Assurity
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