Join Atlassian veterans Dominic and Ben for the story of how and why we created a little thing called the Team Health Monitor. They show you how you can use it to harness the power and increase the confidence of your own healthy teams.
Becoming an Inclusive Leader - Bernadette Thompson
What Awesome Sauce Tastes Like: Getting & Keeping Your Teams Healthy... the Atlassian Way
1. DOM PRICE • @DOMPRICE
What Awesome Sauce
Tastes Like
BEN CROTHERS • @BENCROTHERS
Getting & Keeping Your Teams Healthy... the Atlassian Way
2. The following information is presented as-is, and
does not guarantee success, riches, fame and
glory. Dominic Price and Benjamin Crothers are
not real medical doctors, nor are they to be taken
seriously, really. Adoption of their suggestions
may lead to unpredictable side effects, like, oh
anything from high-fives to random jazz hands to
spontaneous combustion. May not actually be true.
MEDICAL DISCLAIMER
7. Unnecessary hacks
From one project to the next.
Different processes
Making it harder for team members to
swap to other teams.
Knock-on effects
Clunky workarounds just become ‘the
way we do things around here’.
What this
means
across the
company
10. A recipe for success
Full-time owner
Balanced team
Shared understanding
Value and metrics
End-to-end demo
Readme
Dependencies
Velocity
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WHAT
WORKS
FOR YOU
Teamwork
Communication
Tracking
Definition of done
Quality checking
Ownership Decision-making Fun
Doing what it takes to achieve that success
12. WHAT
WORKS
FOR YOU
Teamwork
Communication
Tracking
Definition of done
Quality checking
Ownership Decision-making Fun
Doing what it takes to achieve that success
HEALTH
MONITOR
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13. Full-time owner
Balanced team
Shared understanding
Value and metrics
End-to-end demo
Readme
Dependencies
Velocity
Tracking health… measuring at checkpoints
CHECKPOINTS 1 2 3 4 5
19. Get into a pair (or 3)
Write the 8 health areas on a page
Rate your team for each attribute
(red, amber or green)
Discuss with each other why you rated each
attribute each colour
Activity time: Do a health monitor together
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20. Full-time owner
Balanced team
Shared understanding
Value and metrics
1 End-to-end demo
Readme
Dependencies
Velocity
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The 8 attributes:
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22. Pro tips…
Regular check-ups
Pick 2 areas that will impact the most,
and focus on them first.
Stakeholder struggles?
Use the health monitor as a
discussion point.
Go for impact
Build it into your team’s cadence, and
make it natural.
23. Grab yours
to feel
healthy
Use our 8 healthy team attributes, or
(as a team) come up with your own.
Let us know
We’d like to know how you and your
team went with it.
Try it