Developing a product over years is a tough job. It is hard for the team to stay excited on a day to day basis. So how can you improve motivation and innovation of agile teams and still keep the focus on building a great product? I want to share with you how we at Atlassian used an agile approach to become one of the most successful developer tool companies in the world. This talk will cover topics like Ship It days, 20-percent time, keeping distraction away from developers, lunchtime talks, dogfooding and much more.

1. 7 Things:
How to make
good Teams
great?

2. me
That‘s
Sven Peters
Atlassian Ambassador
speters@atlassian.com
@svenpet
svenpet.com

3. How to make
SoftwareTeams great?

4. How to make
Agile Teams great?

5. How to make
good Teams great?

6. Beware!
We‘re
Australian,
mate!

7. Programmers Heaven
We kick ass
Kick Ass Team Kick Ass Product

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motivation to become great?

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great talents but limited possibilities

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16. 7 Things:
How to make
good Teams
great?

17. 1
m e
wti
F lo
I t ‘s

18. Productivity

19. Produc
tivity

20. vs.

21. Do not
disturb
Time

22. Do not
disturb
the rest

23. Reality Check:
How easy is it to implement in a corporate environment?
Feasibility Points:
Awesomeness Points:
How great will your team be?

24. 2
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Fee
Bra r
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25. i ze
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Coding Sessions

26. i ze
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org
Brown Bags

27. Reality Check:
Feasibility Points:
Awesomeness Points:

28. 3
Well
done!
Say:

29. Appreciation
also of
small things

30. Appreciation
is important for
happiness

31. Appreciation
made
public

32. Appreciation
for
everybody

33. Appreciation
without
approval

34. „
Feel free to recognise someone for
something awesome they've done (no
approval required!) To recognise a
colleague, please click here.
Atlassian Extranet

35. Reality Check:
Feasibility Points:
Awesomeness Points:

36. 4
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R obot

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Is it hot in here, or is it my
Information
Radiator ?
Alistair Cockburn

40. Reality Check:
Feasibility Points:
Awesomeness Points:

41. 5
Eat
your own
Dog Food

42. n g
s t i
Te

43. e r
t t
B e

44. lt
su
R e

45. Eating
your own
Dog Food
fail!
is alpha testing

46. Eating
your own
Dog Food
is understanding

47. Eating
your own
Dog Food
is painful

48. Eating
your own
Dog Food
is fast feedback

49. Reality Check:
Feasibility Points:
Awesomeness Points:

50. 6
Do a
special
day

51. Unpleasant
Things

52. Forget
about the
current
Sprint
for a day

53. technical writer
technical writer
Doc Sprint

54. Blitz Test
fearless tester

55. Clean Up Day

56. Get stuff
out of
the door

57. Reality Check:
Feasibility Points:
Awesomeness Points:

58. Experimentation
7 Time

59. To achieve great things,
two things are needed:
a plan
and not quite enough time.
Leaonard Bernstein

60. Inno vation
Moti
through
vation

61. Idea Brown Bag

62. Sprint
Plan Planning

63. coolest
This... is the longest day of
my life

64. Go Code
:;while [ $? -eq 0 ];do nc -vlp 8080 -
c'(r=read;e=echo;$r a b c;z=$r;while [ ${#z} -gt
2 ];do $r z;done;f=`$e $b|sed 's/[^az0-9_.-]//
gi'`;h="HTTP/1.0";o="$h 200 OKr
n";c="Content";if [ -z $f ];then($e $o;ls|(while
$r n;do if [ -f "$n" ]; then $e "<a href="/$n
">`ls -gh $n`</a><br>";fi;done););elif [ -f $f
];then $e "$o$c-Type: `file -ib $f`n$c-Length:
`stat -c%s$f`";$e;cat $f;else $e -e "$h 404 Not
Foundnn404n";fi)';done

65. Show Winner

66. Innovation Motivation

67. Crapy Code Not maintainable
unstable Feature No final Product

68. Good Code It's maintainable
20% time
stable Feature polished for Product

69. innovation Time
independent Time
free Time

70. Conflicts
Dependencies
Workload
Sprint Goals

71. Innovation
Week
innovation Time
planned Time
team Time

72. Reality Check:
Feasibility Points:
Awesomeness Points:

73. 1 It‘s Flowtime
2 Feed your Brain 7
3 Say: “Well done“
4 Report Robot
5 Eat your own Dogfood
6 Do a Special Day
7 Innovation Time

74. Try
Fail!
but don‘t be
stupid!

75. Measure!

76. Make
it
yours

77. be
Different

78. We‘re hiring
a lot

79. Thanks!
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80. JAX Community Night
tonight 6pm
Don't Drink and Code.
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