Team Dynamics Consulting
It takes the right people, skills, processes, tools, and infrastructures to practice innovation and deliver valuable software technology to markets in a profitable and competitive manner. When you follow a software development approach like agile, SCRUM, or kanban, you may find highly prescriptive requirements for roles, practices, and technical resources. If you adopt a more recent, still evolving discipline like DevOps, it can become far more challenging to gather talented people and enable them to work together successfully. DevOps with continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) may require roles, qualifications, and interaction styles that may be new to your organization. It becomes essential to create a team environment that can make fast-paced, outcome-driven development effective.
Overcoming obstacles to a productive team culture
At Tiempo Development, all client-facing and internal activities are in the hands of high-performing, collaborative teams. Everybody participates on one or multiple teams with clearly defined outcomes and milestones, and all individuals and teams pursue continuous improvement. When our high-performance team dynamics pervades client engagements, it can help other companies transform the way they operate and grow.
Many companies have embraced the ideas behind high-performance team culture and the collaborative accountabilities in agile and DevOps roles. In practice, however, lead developers, project stakeholders, and others can dominate team efforts or delay processes. Even highly motivated and accomplished organizations may struggle with poor interpersonal chemistry, needless competitiveness, or abrasive and incomplete communications in their teams. Those shortcomings are consequential, because they can compromise the quality and value of your software product. They need to be surfaced and understood so everybody can move forward.
Educating and enabling people to thrive in collaborative teams
Tiempo consultants with years of experience in fostering and advancing high-performance teams interview your stakeholders and team members to come to an assessment of your company’s team dynamics, including blockages that compromise team effectiveness. We work with you to take your team culture to the next level and help you—
- Define the right skills, roles, resources, and project management practices.
- Establish meaningful goals, measure progress, and perform ongoing team optimization to drive repeatable success.
- Transform informal groups of colleagues into high-performance teams for agile software development.
Depending on your goals for team dynamics, Tiempo consultants can step out after certain results have been accomplished. Or, they can remain involved through regular meetings or as-needed interventions to accelerate the transformation of team culture.
