effective meetings for distributed teams by marcus degerman
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EFFECTIVE MEETINGS
FOR DISTRIBUTED
TEAMSMARCUS DEGERMAN
SOFTHOUSE CONSULTING
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MEDIA PARTNERS
I help organizations solve problems
together
Distributed
Meetings
Distributed Organisations
Distributed Projects
Distributed Teams
http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/wired-success/201204/why-meetings-kill-productivity
50% 50% 1.5h
Distributed meetings are more exciting
“I think someone is breaking in to my
neighbors house.”
Three types of distribution
Time zone People Competence
Three Challenges
Time Alignment Understanding
Three Needs
Effective Align Relevant
And some models
Lots of examples
Evaluation of Agile Transformation
Visualise what people say
Visualise what people say
Simplified version of
Dialogue mapping by Jeffrey Conklin
Small Retrospective
Team debrief gives 25% higher
performance
Research by Kimberly Smith-Jentsch
Information
exchange
Communication
delivery
Supportive
behavior
Initiative &
Leadership
Talk about teamwork not taskwork
Small Retrospective
How might we improve?
Work in small groups
Small Retrospective
One change
Big Retrospective
13 2
1 - 2 - All
Be super-clear with your meeting
invitations
Goal
Customer service’s requirements are still not concrete and we need to get them into Jira for the project.
Output
• One Epic in JIRA
• List of rest of the Epics to be defined afterwards
• JIRA-settings defined (labels, status, version number,…)
Roles
• Marcus: facilitator
• Marie: Product owner
• Sophie & John: Knows the Customer service requirements
Foundation of any succesful group
Research by Susan Wheelan, Creating effective teams
Clear goal Clear roles Clear structure
Quick to connect
Complain about bad setups until they get
fixed
Would you like to know more?
Solve
problems
together
Marcus
Degerman
Effective meetings for distributed teams
Visualize
Don’t talk in big groups
Clear goal, roles, and structure
Plan the process
On a scale from 0 to 5, how satisfied are
you with this meeting?
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with this presentation?
