Production

Clarity

Get everyone aligned. Unclog communcation channels and be explicit.

Help the team set their own goals and hold them accountable for reaching them.

Never stop making the process better. Embrace the 1% gains.

15 person team

9 months

Oversee all development, facilitate critical communication, and unblock team members.
Build and maintain a product backlog based on team goals to enhance clarity and maintain accountability.
Report weekly to stakeholders on direction, progress, risks and mitigations, and team health.
Ensure submission of weekly / milestone builds, presentation slide decks and other stakeholder deliverables.
Plan out a milestone roadmap and resolve any dependencies as early as possible.
Enable team health and improvement through 1:1 meetings, retrospectives, and teambuilding exercises.
Mediate as an impartial third party and resolve conflict as needed.

Reduced siloing and improved interdisciplinary communication by restructuring the team around feature areas and by holding daily stand ups.
Improved team decision making and prioritization by coaching junior teammates in production best practices.
Directly worked with each team member to optimize their workflows and mitigate dependencies.
Enabled hard conversations about scope and helped the team come to healthy decisions about what to cut.
Improved team autonomy and mastery by delegating tasks and decisions to functional leads and reducing centralized decision-making.
Enhanced team throughput by removing unhelpful interruptions and distractions that might lead to context switching.

10 person team

2 months

Oversee all development, facilitate critical communication, and unblock team members.
Report weekly to stakeholders on direction, progress, risks and mitigations, and team health.
Ensure submission of weekly / milestone builds, presentation slide decks and other stakeholder deliverables.
Resolve any dependencies as early as possible.
Enable team health and improvement through 1:1 meetings, retrospectives, and teambuilding exercises.
Mediate as an impartial third party and resolve conflict as needed.

Improved team planning and communication by holding bi-weekly planning meetings and semi-weekly stand-ups.
Built and maintained a product backlog based on team goals to enhance clarity and maintain accountability.
Improved team decision making and prioritization by coaching junior teammates in production best practices.
Improved team autonomy and mastery by delegating tasks and decisions to functional leads and reducing centralized decision-making.

10 person team

4 weeks

Oversee all development, facilitate critical communication, and unblock team members.
Resolve any dependencies as early as possible.
Enable team health and improvement through 1:1 meetings, retrospectives, and teambuilding exercises.
Mediate as an impartial third party and resolve conflict as needed.

Improved team planning and communication by holding bi-weekly planning meetings and semi-weekly stand-ups.
Led design discussions and kept the team focused and on-topic.
Improved team decision making and prioritization by coaching junior teammates in production best practices.
Resolved dependencies between teammates as needed.

3 person team

4 months

Enabled team health and improvement through regular retrospectives and teambuilding exercises.
Oversee all development, facilitate critical communication, and unblock team members.
Report weekly to stakeholders on direction, progress, risks and mitigations, and team health.
Ensure submission of weekly / milestone builds, presentation slide decks and other stakeholder deliverables.
Resolve any dependencies as early as possible.
Documented production plan and submitted to stakeholders.
Enable team health and improvement through 1:1 meetings, retrospectives, and teambuilding exercises.
Mediate as an impartial third party and resolve conflict as needed.

Improved team planning and communication by holding bi-weekly planning meetings and semi-weekly stand-ups.
Led design discussions and kept the team focused and on-topic.
Improved team decision making and prioritization by coaching junior teammates in production best practices.
Resolved dependencies between teammates as needed.