What can impact Team performance?
Groupthink: individuals conforming to a different view - leading to collective agreement
Wasted Time: Time lost in meetings for example
Free Riding: when individual members of the team do not strive their best, but rely on the Team effort.
What do teams need to perform well?
Team members must be heterogeneous in terms of their skills, abilities, and experience, while striving for homogeneity in their goals and commitment. In addition, they must demonstrate communication and cooperation within the team through regular metacommunication.
What is a Team flow according to Burrow (2015)
When each team member is fully concentrated on a task that is suitable to their expertise.
What is a Agile process method?
Method that involve the entire team in planning, design, process improvements
This is based on commitment feedback, focus, communication, courage, respect, simplicity and openness.
What is SCRUM?
is a framework for agine project management.
It has roles - Product owner, scrum master, implementation team, stakeholders
Iteration/sprints - > project is divided into sprints.
Daily Scrum - Status updates
Sprint Review - end of the sprint, you stakeholders recieve updates
Retrospective - reflection on the collaboration and improvements are made
What is Kanban?
Is a visualization method, that is suitable for teamwork.
What is the best way to ensure that teamwork brings added value?
Set up the team in a way that ensures as much homogeneity as possible in terms of goals and commitment, and a sufficiently high degree of heterogeneity in skills.
The team roles should correspond to the team members’ character traits.
Clear rules should exist on what to do and what not to do, and appropriate penalties should be in place to ensure that everyone adheres to them.
The SMART team goals are the most important and make it clear what to do and what not to do.
How can team building and team flow be effectively supported?
Organize the four levels of cooperation and share information on an ongoing basis about the method of communication and cooperation, while also keeping an eye on any disruptions such as time-wasting or freeloading.
In order to avoid demarcation or separation processes, care must be taken that individual team members do not revert to their individual work.
Particularly in new teams, care must be taken to prevent differences of opinion and to develop sufficiently strong groupthink in order to establish the necessary common ground and to counteract the possible individual outliers.
Professional team leadership is necessary, especially in the first three phases (Forming, Storming, Norming) to lead the team to Performing; at this stage the team then works until its possible dissolution (Adjourning).
What benefits does Scrum offer for agile project management?
Scrum provides a framework that enables flexible collaboration.
With the help of Scrum, the project goals can be formulated in a SMART way, even in complex situations.
Scrum is a method that helps to precisely define the individual steps and tasks in a project until the closing phase.
Scrum helps the team leader to define the task packages that he or she assigns to the individual team members.
Which statement about Design Thinking is correct?
It is a characteristic of Design Thinking that collaboration takes place in an iterative process and is consistently focused on the customer's point of view.
Design Thinking helps the product owner to support the team in developing the product design.
In Design Thinking, the product owner prioritizes the work packages alone or together with the team.
Design Thinking is characterized by a consistent focus on the efficiency of value-adding activities.
Which of the following statements is correct?
Push system means that the individual team members themselves can determine the number and scope of the orders to be processed, thereby “pushing” performance and motivation.
The backlog is a method of improving teamwork.
Planning Poker is a method of visualizing the planning of flexible processes in a team.
Work-in-progress boundaries limit the maximum number of tasks that can be started, thereby shifting the distribution of tasks and requests from push to pull.
What is planning poker?
By letting team member prioritize and assign numbers to rasks on card, and reevaluate them afterwards, allows the team to better understand priorities and reconsider their understanding of the customers request - by looking at the highest and lowers values cards.
What is design thinking?
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