Measuring team performance at spotify slideshare
- 1. Measuring Team Health At Spotify From Gut Feel To Hard Data Danielle Jabin
- 2. What is great? How do we knowwhen we’re there?
- 3. You can’t manage what you don’t measure.
- 4. Making teams better, people happier, and long-termvalue deliverysustainable.
- 5. What do we associate with being Agile?
- 6. Breaking down work into stories and stories into tasks
- 8. Delivering said tasks according to prioritization
- 9. Measuring cycle time, velocity,value delivered
- 10. We add rules on top of that
- 11. Tasks must be less than X points with no more thanYpoints per sprint
- 12. Standups must be completed in under 10 minutes
- 13. And on and on…
- 15. End goal: achieve sustainable long-term value delivery
- 16. There are a lot ofways to get there.
- 17. If our focus is too much in the weeds…
- 18. …we’ll miss the big picture.
- 19. What is it that makes a team high performing then?
- 20. Sometimes we relyon gut feel.
- 21. Gut feel is notoriously flawed.
- 23. You can’t manage what you don’t measure.
- 24. The Characteristics • Aware of Skills • Embrace and Adapt to Change • Quality Discipline • Delivers Results • Ownership and Responsibility • Iterative Discipline • Continuous Improvement • Fast Decision-making With Shared Understanding • Positive Energy • Collaboration • Exceeding Expectations • Visualization • Focus and Clear Purpose • Technical Proficiency • Small Teams • Intra-team Feedback • Customer Engagement • Presence • Celebrates Wins and Learnings
- 25. How can we make sure these conversations are happening?
- 28. The Statements 1. It is clear to me why our team exists. 2. It is clear to me who benefits from the things we deliver. 3. I feel that my team is able to influence the world of Spotify. 4. I'm happy with how frequently we deliver value to our users. 5. I'm proud of the value we deliver to our users. 6. We regularly identify the most appropriate way forward. 7. We continuously improve our way of working. 8. I give feedback to my team members. 9. I get feedback from my team members. 10. I feel a sense of purpose when working on this team. 11. We get support from the rest of the organization.
- 29. The Process
- 30. Gather the entire team in a room
- 31. Read each statement aloud • Rate from 1 to 10 (with 1 being strongly disagree and 10 being strongly agree) • Repeat it 1-2 times so people can absorb it • Reveal at the same time
- 32. Facilitate a discussion around each statement • “Why do we feel this way?” • “X, you rated this a 6. What would it take for you to give it a 9 or 10 rating next time? What changes would you need to see?” • “Y, you rated this a 10 whereas the rest of the team rated this at 5 on average. Where do you think we’re excelling in this area?
- 33. Take notes during the discussion • Direct quotes and paraphrasing as opposed to analysis and interpretation
- 34. Review discussion notes and organize them into themes that emerge • Discuss findings with the team • What do they think? • What do they want to focus on? • The team needs to have a sense of ownership of their continuous improvement
- 35. Re-evaluate in 3 – 6 months • Does the team feel satisfied with the progress made? Do they have new improvement points this time? Woohoo! • Do the same points come up as last time? :( Perhaps it’s time to think more critically about how to have more effective and long-lasting impact. There could be many reasons for this. • Dig deeper with a root cause analysis.
- 38. "I don’t always reflect on orrealize how muchvalue it isthatwe’re delivering.” “We do delivera shitload ofstuff, but once something slows down it feels like you’re not delivering (whenyou really are).”
- 39. The Characteristics • Aware of Skills • Embrace and Adapt to Change • Quality Discipline • Delivers Results • Ownership and Responsibility • Iterative Discipline • Continuous Improvement • Fast Decision-making With Shared Understanding • Positive Energy • Collaboration • Exceeding Expectations • Visualization • Focus and Clear Purpose • Technical Proficiency • Small Teams • Intra-team Feedback • Customer Engagement • Presence • Celebrates Wins and Learnings
- 40. "I don’t always reflect on orrealize how muchvalue it isthatwe’re delivering.” “We do delivera shitload ofstuff, but once something slows down it feels like you’re not delivering (whenyou really are).” Pattern: Celebrates Wins and Learnings
- 41. How do we fix that?
- 43. "We knowthere arethingsthatwe can improve, butwe don’t dothem. We don’t followthrough. It’s notthatwe’re not aware, it’sthatwe don’t dothem.”
- 44. The Characteristics • Aware of Skills • Embrace and Adapt to Change • Quality Discipline • Delivers Results • Ownership and Responsibility • Iterative Discipline • Continuous Improvement • Fast Decision-making With Shared Understanding • Positive Energy • Collaboration • Exceeding Expectations • Visualization • Focus and Clear Purpose • Technical Proficiency • Small Teams • Intra-team Feedback • Customer Engagement • Presence • Celebrates Wins and Learnings
- 45. "We knowthere arethingsthatwe can improve, butwe don’t dothem. We don’t followthrough. It’s notthatwe’re not aware, it’sthatwe don’t dothem.” Pattern: Iterative Discipline
- 46. How do we fix that?
- 48. Make it your own! • What elements are core to your culture? What do you value? • What are your expectations on/from teams?
- 49. Squad Reflections helps us build a more comprehensiveview of a team’s health in a way that even strictAgile adherence can’t.
- 50. You can’t manage what you don’t measure!
- 53. Thank You!
- 54. Appendix
- 55. The Process • Gather the entire team in a room • Read each statement aloud • Rate from 1 to 10 (with 1 being strongly disagree and 10 being strongly agree) • Reveal at the same time • Facilitate a discussion around each question • “Why do we feel this way?” • “X, you rated this a 6. What would it take for you to give it a 9 or 10 rating next time? What changes would you need to see.” • “Y, you rated this a 10 whereas the rest of the team rated this at 5 on average. Where do you think we’re excelling in this area?” • Take notes during the discussion • Direct quotes as opposed to analysis and interpretation • Review discussion notes and organize them into themes • Discuss findings with the teams • The team needs to have a sense of ownership of their continuous improvement • Identify 2 - 3 focus areas • Re-evaluate in 3 - 6 months