The Team Effect
March 22nd, 2012
A while back, I posted a little mind map about business costs of a struggling team. But what about the benefits of the team effect? What does a business gain when teams thrive?

The Benefits of the Team Effect
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Awesome!!!!!! Gonna post on meeting room wall in big size
Most excellent!
Yes! That’s totally the team I have been and am building. Well, we’re just one team among others but.
I wish I could print out a huge one
Nice! If a picture is worth a thousand words then that graph is worth a million.
How ’bout a million word description for us on your next blog post?
Thanks for sharing this Esther. I printed off a copy and we compared our Dev team to the various behaviours. It was interesting to see that we ticked off most of the “soft” behaviours on the right, but not so many of the “technical” behaviours on the left. So this has provided a very easy way of measuring our “thriving team” maturity and will no doubt help us formulate ideas for continuous improvement.
Thanks again!
Thanks for sharing your experience, Paul. Would love to hear more about how the team works with the mind map. Let me know if there are more factors to add.
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This is phenomenal. This deserves a wall on the room of every engineering organization.
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