Team Composition
Bringing the right talent together who share the same mindset gives the foundation
When putting a team together you should generally be interested in two things: collective competency that ensures independent value delivery and temperaments that jive well with each other. You want to be able to deliver all functional requirements of your product - that’s the base idea. While digging deeper however, you’ll see that the most effective teams are more than a collection of hard knowledge and competence. They usually have various characters on board: the visionary, the expert, the one that’s great in execution and optimisation, the one that brings everyone together…
Bring the
right skills
Establish a cross-functional team with minimal dependence on other groups. Explore the concept of t-shaped people and how to foster them.
Bring the
right mindset
Choose people that don’t just have the right hard competency, but can create a synergy in their attitudes and character.
Bring
the stability
Assure stability creating long-lived dedicated teams. Grasp the importance of people being able to focus on one thing at a time. Prevent the “bus factor”.
Assure
Interdependability
Build a team spirit where both success and failure is on the Team and not Individuals and people create the best products working together.