What is a Team?
Here is an infographic on “what is a team?”. I created it to help explain the concept in an upcoming workshop. Now I think it will be part of my basic Agile training.
Team Characteristics
- Shared Purpose or Goal
- Team Boundary – who is part of team and who is not.
- Shared responsibility to achieve the goal
- Shared work and shared results
- Maybe 5 or maximum 8 people on the team.
Please note, I am not talking about the definition of a “high-performance team”. This would need to include things like: safety, trust, diversity, collaboration skills, kindness, etc.
Acknowledgements
This was inspired by the discussion of a team at Value, Quality, Flow. They drawn on lot’s of influences, so hard to list them all here.
Rafael Alvarez Said,
November 22, 2012 @ 4:39 pm
In the AYE conference last year, we were grouped by myera-brigg indicator. Our team (NTJs) draw something very similar to that. We had some arrows bouncing on the boundaries of the team to represent “resiliency” to outside negative influence.
But the other groups got totally different diagrams, each truly reflecting their temperament (SJ, SP, NF, NTP)
Just an anecdote.
Michael Sahota Said,
November 22, 2012 @ 4:51 pm
Hi Rafael,
Wow, what an interesting thought – that the preference for what we think of as a team depends on the people in it. It would seem to imply that there are different kinds of teams. It would be really great if you (or anyone) could share something about what those might look like.
Thanks for sharing.
- Michael