Atlassian Team on Tour Recap
It was great to attend Atlassian's Team on Tour conference this week!
Here are my key takeaways from the day.
⛷️ Focus
Knowledge workers spend 25% of their day searching for information. Every time you switch tabs or contexts, it doesn’t just kill time, it disrupts your focus. Having all the information you need on one screen and all your corporate knowledge easily searchable and accessible is a massive boost to productivity (thanks to Rovo's AI).
🦕 Continuous evolution over transformation
The era of the expensive “Transformation” is over. Instead of paying consultants millions for a slide deck, equip and empower your team to drive continuous improvement. They are closest to the problem and have the insights required. Being part of the solution is incredibly empowering and satisfying.
⏱️ Time to Value over Time to Market
Metrics will drive behaviour, for good or for bad. When the metric becomes the goal you lose touch with the Why behind your actions; incentivise time-to-market, you’ll end up with a fast, bad product. Incentivise time-to-value and the goal becomes more meaningful.
🪣 Productivity in silos misses the point
If you make your team super productive, you’ll just move the bottleneck further up or down the chain. Productivity needs to be considered in wholistic terms. Don’t ignore the flow of work.
🗺️ Making change
Not every business process can be up for improvement every week. You need some established parameters to avoid spinning wheels and indecision. Consider what is ‘fixed’, ‘flexible’ and ‘free’. Don’t add more processes, meetings or reports, instead consider what can be stripped back and simplified.
🚦 Engage with the signals of change
Engage with potential threats early and with curiosity. Consider the opportunity to take advantage of shifting tides. Be less furious, more curious.
Dominic Price and Andrea Clarke on managing sustainable change effectively
Sarah Atkinson, Dieter Botha, Tim Lelek & Liron Deutsch on deliberate and purposeful collaboration.
