What if we envision the stable team as a unified superhuman entity named Tea-Tim?
Tea-Tim possesses an extensive range of competencies, excelling at understanding customer needs, grasping underlying architecture, comprehending system requirements, and expertly designing, developing, and deploying changes.
Tea-Tim is old enough to be free from internal conflicts. It has cultivated a profound self-trust, taking accountability for both successes and failures. Tea-Tim is driven by a strong motivation to produce meaningful results. Tea-Tim has learned to avoid multitasking, focusing now on one task at a time, significantly reducing lead times to complete customer needs from end-to-end perspective.
Tea-Tim is capable to learn fast utilizing the power of seven. With it’s seven different viewpoints it can create more resilient solutions by approaching problems from varied perspectives. The superhuman entity, with its broad skill set, efficiently handles a wide array of tasks, increasing the flexibility.
In instances where a specific area of the organization requires additional capacity, Tea-Tim seamlessly transitions to the new domain, leveraging its rapid learning capacity to become swiftly productive. Tea-Tim’s management has observed a shift where assigning small tasks to individuals is no longer necessary, reducing the complexity in resource management by sevenfold.
Tea-Tim faced a setback initially with the amputation of one thinking head. The recovery process spanned three months, involving internal storming and norming before achieving internal equilibrium of performing once again.
To conclude, let’s appreciate the hard work needed to grow a high performing team —a journey that may not yield instant results, becomes an essential element in the company’s agile foundation. Growing a stable team requires time and repeated interactions. Every time the composition of the team changes, the journey of building trust begins anew, starting from ground zero. Does your company afford that?
The strength inherent in a stable team is its capacity to grow together, fostering trust, resolve conflicts, embracing accountability, wanting to deliver results as a team. The crucial shift in mindset lies in viewing the team not as a collection of individuals, not as interchangeable resources, but as a cohesive unit—an entity in itself.
Long Live the Team!
