What were we trying to achieve?
• Understanding the different skills
• Roles with the same name doing different things
• Different roles doing the same thing
• What were the common areas, what was specialised?
• How could you identify if you had the skills needed on a team?
• Different projects may need different skills
• Could you put together a team based on these profiles?
The Experiment - Quantify
• Where do we spend our time today?• Common between roles• Quantify what you do now
• Where to start?
Here’s what it looks like
• Each person created a spreadsheet
• Why 155?
• Filled in for what we spend time on and want to spend time on
• Extracted into powerpoint to visualise results
Extending to a team
• Can we overlay different people’s graphs?
• What if all the team members had a graph
• Just a matter of numbers right..
• Would this result in a well rounded team?
Outcomes
• Career plan discussions
• Able to identify areas for growth
• Are you doing what you want to do?
What did we learn?
• Huge diversity in the roles
• Open to interpretation, both in completing spreadsheet and viewing
results
• Visual vacuum between current and desired
• Great for collaboration
• Helped people identify career goals and directions
Where to next?
• Discussed extensions
• Could it be generalised across other areas e.g. devs, QA
• Does every role have as many facets to it
• Compress to X attributes per key area
• Everyone could have a profile
• Extend to other areas of the business
• Take over the world!
Conclusion
• Great for collaboration
• Built relationships
• Identify what you do and where you want to go
• Visualise career goals
• Experimented and iterated
Conclusion
• It is not desirable to measure a team like this
• Objectifies people
• Misses the dynamics of the team
• May remove space for people to grow as all skills covered
• Would people be “selected” for team - What happened to self selection?
• Very personal – admitting where you want to go
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