STARTING A
COLLABORATION
REVOLUTION
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WHY COLLABORATE?
LESS
FRUSTRATION

WHY COLLABORATE?
BETTER
PERFORMANCE

HIGH
PERFORMANCE
PEOPLE

HIGH
PERFORMANCE
PEOPLE

things getting more complicated

separate teams: hardware & software
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HIGH
PERFORMANCE
TEAMS

BLIND UNDERSTANDING CAN CHANGE TACTICS
CRITIQUE CULTURE CLEAR GOALS TRANSPARENT STATS EXCHANGEABLE

PRODUCTIVITY
COMMUNICATION

40% OF PRODUCTIVITY is directly
connected to COMMUNICATION

70%
INFORMATION
EXCHANGE
30%

30% INFORMATION EXCHANGE 70% should
be

EMPOWER STOP CONTROLLING YOUR TEAM
EVERYTHING

STAND UP AGAINST
PHYSICAL
ISOLATION

WHAT'S YOUR
WORKSPACE
LIKE?

DO NOT DISTURB ME! SPONTANEOUS
CONVERSATION?

CHAT
HERE?
BOSS
HIDE HERE!

A PLACE FOR
COLLABORATION

NO BARRIERS FOR COLLABORATION no
walls

SPACE TO TALK it 's
OK to chat with me

SEE WHO'S OCCUPIED transpar ent
meet ing room s

flexible
OPEN & CLOSED

WE BUILT PORTALS! Camera TV
Mac mini

A PLACE FOR
CONCENTRATION

I DON'T WANT TO BE
DISTURBED! closed door, but visible

headphones indicate unavailability DO NOT
DISTURB ME!

DISTURB
JUST ME!

DO NOT DISTURB THE REST
phone booth

LITTLE WIERD SITS CLOSE TO
THE BOSS THINKS TOO HARD TURNS KNOBS EASILY EXCITED YELLS IN EMERGENCIES

Oper at Develo p ions
ers LITTLE WIERD SITS CLOSE TO THE BOSS THINKS TOO HARD TURNS KNOBS EASILY EXCITED YELLS IN EMERGENCIES

one tea
m

AVOID
SPECIALIST ISOLATION!

CROSS FUNCTIONAL TEAMS great tester
amazing designer cool developers incredible product owner

JUST That 's n ot
DevO CROSS FUNCTIONAL TEAMS ? ps

SHARE THE KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTAND
EACH OTHER BETTER

STAND UP AGAINST
COMMUNICATION
BARRIERS

PLACES
COMMUNICATION
BARRIER
1

WHEN WORKING REMOTE... COLLABORATION IS
HARD

WORKPLACES IN A MODERN WORLD

WORKPLACES IN A MODERN WORLD
Collocated teams

WORKPLACES IN A MODERN WORLD
people move to where they want to live

WORKPLACES IN A MODERN WORLD
people want to work where they're productive

WORKPLACES IN A MODERN WORLD
people want to work while travelling

WORKPLACES IN A MODERN WORLD
geolocation is not the limit for teams

PEOPLE
COMMUNICATION
BARRIER
2

WHERE DO POEPLE
HIDE INFORMATION?

Emails
Excel sheets
Word Docs

Is that the best place
to store information?

information exchanged? she has no
idea

TIMING
COMMUNICATION
BARRIER
3

SYNCHRONOUS WORK

ASYNCHRONOUS
WORK

Productivity

Produc
tivity

NUMBERS 2 hours/day recovering from
distractions 80 % of interruptions are considered trivial Source: atlss.in/TimeWaster

MEETING effective time in between?
MEETING effective time in between? MEETING

MEETING effective time in between!
MEETING

PLACE TIMING PEOPLE What COMMUNICATION
helps ? BARRIER

TAKE SOME PILLS

62 INVOLVE EVERYBODY Original Post
One Day Later One Week Later

INVOLVE EVERYBODY INDEPENDENT OF Place
Role Time

MAKE EVERYBODY UNDERSTAND AGREE DISAGREE
CLARIFY

QUESTIONS?

THE ANSWER IS OUT THERE

THE ANSWER IS OUT THERE

QUESTIONS?

for everybody QUESTIONS? GIVE ANSWERS
ONCE!

agile methodologies.
ASK A QUESTION

Ask a question

ANSWERS
QUESTIONS

SEARCH RESULTS

early
Beta - atlassian.com/questions
2014

CONVERSATIONS WITHOUT BARRIERS WHO USES
Chat ?

Confluence Developer Design Team Enterprise
Discussions JUST THE CONVERSATIONS YOU NEED Chat Rooms

Chat IS GREAT FOR REMOTE
CONVERSATIONS ...and local! PEOPLE CAN STAY IN THE ZONE

Chat IS GREAT FOR DIFFERENT
TIMEZONES THE CHAT RECORDS ALL CONVERSATIONS THAT HAPPENED DURING THE NIGHT

Chat CAN PULL PEOPLE INTO
CONVERSATIONS with ease JUST @MENTION SOMEONE

Chat
CAN BE TURNED OFF

Sit down, we need to
talk

JUST IF YOU CAN'T AVOID
MEETINGS comin g soo Google HangOut HipChat Video n Skype

JUST IF YOU CAN'T AVOID
MEETINGS

NEEDS MORE RESTRICTIONS GET USED
TO IT WORKS UP TO 4 PEOPLE perso nal exper ience VIDEO MEETINGS DEFINITELY TIMEBOXED

STAND UP AGAINST
FOGGY
GOALS

HOW ARE WE WORKING TOGETHER?
WHAT MATTERS TO US? ON WHAT DO WE FOCUS? WHAT ARE YOUR COMPANY VALUES?

Customer Orientation Discipline Quality Risk
Taking Great Place to Work Results Orientation Open Company, No Bullshit Build with Heart and Balance Don't #@!% the Customer Play, as a Team Be the Change You Seek

YOU DON'T SET CORE VALUES,
YOU DISCOVER CORE VALUES Jim Collins

CLEAR GOALS FOR THE COMPANY

CLEAR GOALS FOR EVERYONE
DISCUSS

TRANSPARENT GOALS

FINE TUNE GOALS CHECK FREQUENTLY
GOAL REVIEW SHORT & LONG TERM SCOPE CHANGE

GOAL REVIEW don't allow ghost
goals

WE NEED CLEAR & TRANSPARENT
GOALS FOR EFFECTIVE COLLABORATION

STAND UP AGAINST
IMPERSONAL
ENVIRONMENTS

PEOPLE

BRING PEOPLE TOGETHER ...and get
personal

ONE
WAY
ONE
EVENT

FACEWALL

FACEWALL

Be
VISIBLE & SHARE EXPERIENCES

YOU'RE
NOT
CHUCK
NORRIS

COLLABORATION
...there is no switch

EVERYONE HAS A VOICE TRANSPARENT
GOALS INFORMATION FLOWS FREELY NO PHYSICAL BARRIERS GET PERSONAL

WORK GETS
DONE

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