Team Dynamic
This article was written to help you with basic knowledge of Team Dynamics and as an individual review assignment of PPL CSUI 2021
Working in a team is essential in software development. A team is a group of individuals that working together for common purposes. Inside a team, you most likely to found people with different personalities and characteristics. Team dynamics is the way for the team to communicate with each other.
In agile methodology, Effective and Collaborative teams were introduced. To achieve this, Good Team Dynamic is a must. A good team dynamic able the team to succeed and perform at the highest level possible.
In a team, there is a leader who is in charge of your entire team. A leader focuses on motivating and inspiriting the team through collaboration. The leader leads the team to success together. We called it Servant Leader.
Servant Leader
A servant leader is someone who takes charge to arrange the developer team in the development process. In summary, it made to serve the team. There are a few important aspects of servant leadership:
- Providing Accountability — makes sure all the team members successful to reach the goals identified by the team self.
- Supporting and Resourcing — provide any resources to help the team reaches the goals.
- Engaging in Honest Self-Evaluation — keep self-evaluating and able to honest with failure.
- Fostering Collaboration — push the team to keep motivated to reach the goals through collaboration.
- Communicating with Clarity — Communication takes essential parts in Dynamics Team. A leader must able to clear the communication between himself and the teams, so the team members understood what was conveyed.
- Valuing and Appreciating — ables to build encouragement and affirmation in each team member by their contribution.
Build Team Dynamic
The team dynamic is all about awareness, the way the team moves, and the performance and behavior of the team in the development process. Team dynamics is essential in working in a team. It affects the way in decision making and how the team members behave.
There are a few aspects in team dynamics,
- Team Cognition — The way the team makes a decision together.
- Team Cohesion — social connection and bonding between the team members. The better connection between the members the more productive the team.
- Team Conflict — when conflict occurred, conflict makes the dynamics team better. But, keep in mind that communication still needs to be done and each team member understands each other.
To do with these aspects, we need to understand Team Capacity.
Team Capacity
Team capacity is about the skills, throughput, and performance of each team member. Leaders must be able to understand their team’s capacity. By understanding the team capacity, the leader would be able to assign the task appropriate manner, aware of their teams to reach efficient and effective development.
- Each team member has their own capacity. One thing that a leader realizes is each member has different capabilities. The difference did not become a problem but introduce the team to the effective way in task distribution based on their capacity.
- There are external aspects that affect the team's capacity. The team capacity is not a static thing, it always changes. A team leader should understand the team member's performance and sensitive to their team member's capacity.
Team Dynamic Essential
There are several criteria to achieve good team dynamics,
- Open communication, communication is a thing that has to be maintained well. Any problem and conflict that happen should be treated and communicated well with the teams. A great team should have honest communication and cares passionately about its task.
- Empowerment, the team should have a free to make decisions on the work they are doing. Keep in mind, empowerment should be given to the team that ready for it.
- Clear roles and responsibilities, The team members should understand what is expected from them in the team. They also know whom they can count for helping them with their work.
- Goal clarity, Goal is the common purpose of the team built. With Goal clarity, your team will be more efficient and quick decision making. The goal is the simple standard of whether the decision the team considering works for or against the goal.
- An effective leader. A team leader takes part in controlling the team to achieve the task. A team leader should encourage team members to express their views and opinions to achieve the goals.
Team Dynamics in My Project
My project using Agile Methodology, here our team dynamic implementation during the development.
- Story and Task Estimation. Here each team member discussed to determine the complexity of the task given. Usually, it scored using points(Fibbonaci points). This offers everyone an opportunity to have their say.
- Daily Standup. Here each team member shared what they had done in the previous day and what they plan to do before the next 15-minutes daily meeting. Here the Scrum Master takes part to identifies any problem or uncomfortable that the team member held.
- Retrospective. This is where the Scrum Master stabilizing the Team, reviews what occurred in the sprint, what must be avoided in the future, and what action the team needs to take.
End Words
Thank you for your enthusiasm to learn about Team Dynamics. I hope this article can help you with your project and assignment.
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