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Roles and Responsibilities for Exhilarated Teams

Clarity of responsibility ownership and health for high performance teams

Workshop description

Every team is different, with its own unique needs and a variety of people who have different job titles and roles. It is not easy to fit them into a simple framework or model.

For a team to work well, everyone needs to know clearly what they are responsible for, no matter what their job title is or how the team is structured. It is also important to know how well each responsibility is being handled and how happy the person is about handling it.

When you put all of these things together, you create a responsibility map for your team. This map shows you where your team is strong and where there might be weaknesses. It helps you make plans to improve.

After the workshop, everyone on the team can say, "I know exactly what I am responsible for on this team!"

Who should attend

  • It is highly recommended the whole team attend together including:
  • All Team members i.e. anyone who completes tasks/stories for the team
  • Scrum Master or the person responsible for the agility of the team
  • Anyone responsible for the product, technical, design, and other functional areas of the team
  • People Leaders / Managers of the team
  • Others who play a critical role on the team during a typical iteration

What you will apply with your team

  • Understand the key roles and responsibilities on a high performance team
  • What responsibilities does our team have?
  • Who is responsible for what on our team?
  • What is the health of each responsibility on our team?
  • What actions will we take to address any gaps?

Workshop details

1

What is responsibility mapping?

Overview of responsibility mapping and what we will achieve together

2

Review and add team responsibilities

We will review the responsibilities of a high performing team and add any additional team specific ones

3

Map responsibilities

The participants will map their responsibilities

4

Feedback

The participants will give feedback to each other and adjust as necessary

5

Review gaps and identify action items

Based on the state of the responsibility map we will look at the most critical gaps and identify what we will do about them

What attendees are saying

Best workshop I ever attended. 10 out of 10!

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Workshop Attendee

Why didn't we do this sooner, it would have saved us a lot of blame games

Anonymous feedback
Workshop Attendee

This has given us amazing clarity in something that the team has been struggling with for a while

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Still have questions?

Check out the FAQs.

This activity includes specific elements designed for a team to develop a shared understanding and give each other feedback at key stages. As such we highly recommend that the whole team attends together.

Hard to say but when we have seen this question asked previously, the answer almost always turns out to be yes.