Coming together as a truly “high-performing team” seems like an impossible task these days. Can a truly “cross-functional” team even be built? How do you get introverts and extroverts (yes, they DO exist in IT) to work well together? It may feel like you practically need a degree in psychology to get this right these days. But you don’t.

Over the course of my career, I’ve worked with clients and their software teams to develop high-functioning teams. I’ve found that regardless of focus (software development, marketing, sales), there are patterns to what makes teams successful, and what can hold them back from greatness.

- Are you spending time understanding what the individual members of the team need to be successful or are you trying “one size fits all” solutions?
- Are you creating a safe and supportive environment to foster experimentation and learning, or are you doing the same old stuff you’ve always done, wondering why you don't see better results?
- Are you leveraging people’s individual strengths and balancing the team as a whole or just putting whoever is available on a task or story and hoping for the best?

In this talk, I’ll cover a couple of tools for understanding the needs and strengths of your individual team members, identifying strength gaps, and action items for creating a happy and well-balanced team that can get it done!