Triad Magic: How Product, Design, and Engineering Work Better Together
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Team Triads How product, design and engineering work better together.
STEVE KING | SERVER PRODUCT MANAGER | @STEVEATHON
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SUMMIT, 2017
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Modern software development
A remix.
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What’s a triad?
A leadership team within the development team creating balance between the business, the customer and the
product.Photographer; Source (example.flickr.com)
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Engineering
What does a software team triad look like?
ProductDesign
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Triads and the balance of responsibility. Balancing responsibility across multiple roles is about sharing the ownership equally?
The magic.
Engineering
DesignProduct
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Triads are great, but they are a guiding
structure for the whole team.
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So a triad is prescriptive - and it just works?
TRIADS IN TEAMS
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What other triads exist in Atlassian?
Workplace experience is another team where
you see the triad operating, but not like
we do in software teams.
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People
Experience team triad
CohesionProperty
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Service Team Continuous value delivery through a faster pipeline.
Product Team Slower delivery of value but
in larger pieces of work.
Our team type
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Traditional team formation
FORMING OUR TEAM
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Team formation goals
Team goals Why does our team exist, how will we measure our success.
Team structure How will we structure ourselves for success and deliver against our goals.
Delivery style How will we deliver value to customers and stakeholders and on what schedule.
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Signs of trouble.
LEARN AND ADAPT
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LEARN AND ADAPT
Team formation
First roadmap in place
Delivering on roadmap
Missing deadlines
Can’t seem to make fast decisions
June July Aug Oct Dec
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What did we do to fix it?
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Identify the problems
We were lacking momentum - spending too much time planning.
Unable to make decisions, or agree as a leadership group.
Get clear about our measurable goals
Demonstrate value to stakeholders and customers
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TRUST
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Triad rebalance Realizing that there’s some shared responsibility, but making sure we’re clear about how to get decisions made.
The magic.
Engineering
DesignProduct
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Engaged a program manager to help us out.
BUILDING A TRIAD
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Like doctors?
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Clear process.
BUILDING A TRIAD
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CLEAR PROCESS
We built a ‘how we work’
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CLEAR PROCESS
Release Review
Review
DefineRefine
Define Refine BuildDiscover
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Clear ownership.
BUILDING A TRIAD
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Roles and responsibilities play.
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Now we find the balance. Mixes of shared responibility, with different levels of crossover on each role depending on the project.
The real magic™.
Engineering
DesignProduct
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Product Manager Represent the customer, the wider business and the stakeholders to the team and vice versa.
Development Lead Deliver the feature to the product, ensure reliability and stability and respond to issues.
Design Lead Make the product coherent and provides the voice and personality for the product.
The triad and the tribe.
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Product Manager Represent the customer, the wider business and the stakeholders to the team and vice versa.
Development Lead Deliver the feature to the product, ensure reliability and stability and respond to issues.
Design Lead Make the product coherent and provides the voice and personality for the product.
The triad and the tribe.
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Product Manager Represent the customer, the wider business and the stakeholders to the team and vice versa.
Development Lead Deliver the feature to the product, ensure reliability and stability and respond to issues.
Design Lead Make the product coherent and provides the voice and personality for the product.
The triad and the tribe.
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Communicate with eachother.
BUILDING A TRIAD
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Individual factors Remember the team is made up of individuals with different skills, experience and personalities.
COMMUNICATE WITH EACH OTHER.
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Organisational factors Internal and external factors of the organization and the teams role within it.
COMMUNICATE WITH EACH OTHER.
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Team factors Value the team and make time for team cohensiveness.
COMMUNICATE WITH EACH OTHER.
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Build respect.
BUILDING A TRIAD
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TRUST
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Build respect.
Learn the process, Refine the process.
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Build respect.
Impact on other teams and new starters.
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Build respect.
Mutual accountability.
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Learn.
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Too much product.
LEARN
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Express lane.
LEARN
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Discovery
Support Issues
Customer Interviews
AnalysisCustomer Pain
Validation
Top of the funnel
PM Review
Customer Value / Product Fit
Envisioning and prioritization
Build
Ship to Master
Ship to Customer
Express lane.
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Discovery
Support Issues
Customer Interviews
AnalysisCustomer Pain
Validation
Top of the funnel
PM Review
Customer Value / Product Fit
Envisioning and prioritization
Build
Ship to Master
Ship to Customer
Express lane.
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Discovery
Support Issues
Customer Interviews
AnalysisCustomer Pain
Validation
Top of the funnel
PM Review
Customer Value / Product Fit
Envisioning and prioritization
Build
Ship to Master
Ship to Customer
Express lane.
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Discovery
Support Issues
Customer Interviews
AnalysisCustomer Pain
Validation
Top of the funnel
PM Review
Customer Value / Product Fit
Envisioning and prioritization
Build
Ship to Master
Ship to Customer
Express lane.
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We don’t have some things on our team.
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Blame.
LEARN
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Overly negative thinking.
LEARN
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What can you do to start your journey towards a triad, or improve the process in your team?
TAKE AWAY
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TAKE AWAY
Be a catalyst!start small, keep tinkering
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TAKE AWAY
Fail fast!but always learn from your mistakes.
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TAKE AWAY
Know your strengthsof you and your wider team
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TAKE AWAY
Embrace change!but try to focus on the things that you don’t do well first.
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TAKE AWAY
bit.ly/team-playbookGo see our Program Managers out in the Expo hall.
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Questions?
STEVE KING | SERVER PRODUCT MANAGER | @STEVEATHON
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Thank you!
STEVE KING | SERVER PRODUCT MANAGER | @STEVEATHON