This presentation is about how to get the best out of your software development team. We at Atlassian have tried some things to make our daily work more efficient and more fun. We are tying things like Dogfooding, Brown Bags, automatic project reports, FedEx Days and much 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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13. 7 Things:
How to make
good Teams
great?

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17. Do not
disturb
Time

18. Do not
disturb
the rest

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

20. 2
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Fee
Bra r
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Coding Sessions

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Brown Bags

23. Reality Check:
Feasibility Points:
Awesomeness Points:

24. 3
Well
done!
Say:

25. Appreciation
also of
small things

26. Appreciation
is important for
happiness

27. Appreciation
made
public

28. Appreciation
for
everybody

29. Appreciation
without
approval

30. „
Feel free to recognise someone for
something awesome they've done (no
approval required!) To recognise a
colleague, please click here.
Atlassian Extranet

31. Reality Check:
Feasibility Points:
Awesomeness Points:

32. 4
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Is it hot in here, or is it my
Information
Radiator ?
Alistair Cockburn

36. Reality Check:
Feasibility Points:
Awesomeness Points:

37. 5
Eat
your own
Dog Food

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s t i
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39. e r
t t
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40. lt
su
R e

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

42. Eating
your own
Dog Food
is understanding

43. Eating
your own
Dog Food
is painful

44. Eating
your own
Dog Food
is fast feedback

45. Eating
your own
Dog Food
is less QA

46. Eating
your own
Dog Food
is efficent work
for QA

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48. Reality Check:
Feasibility Points:
Awesomeness Points:

49. 6
Do a
special
day

50. Forget
about the
current
Sprint
for a day

51. technical writer
technical writer
Doc Sprint

52. Blitz Test
fearless tester

53. Clean Up Day

54. Get stuff
out of
the door

55. Reality Check:
Feasibility Points:
Awesomeness Points:

56. Experimentation
7 Time

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

58. Inno vation
Moti
through
vation

59. Idea Brown Bags

60. Sprint
Plan Planning

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

62. Go Code
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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

63. Show Winner

64. Innovation Motivation

65. Crapy Code Not maintainable
unstable Feature No final Product

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

67. innovation Time
independent Time
free Time

68. Conflicts
Dependencies
Workload
Sprint Goals

69. Innovation
Week
innovation Time
planned Time
team Time

70. Reality Check:
Feasibility Points:
Awesomeness Points:

71. 1 It‘s Flowtime
2 Feed your Brain
3 Say: “Well done“
4 Report Robot
5 Eat your own Dogfood
6 Do a Special Day
7 Innovation Time

72. Try
Fail!
but don‘t be
stupid!

73. Measure!

74. One Step
at a time

75. be
Different

76. We‘re hiring
a lot

77. Thanks!
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