Top Secret to Creating a High-performing Product Team

What the talk is about

Aleksandar Aleksic explains how the Top Eleven team at Nordeus, a mobile football management game, became high-performing over two years. After the game was rebuilt in Unity, replacing three separate front-end teams, the new cross-functional team was selected on three principles: passion, desire to work on the product, and a history of working well together. He walks through the stages of team growth: shared vision and team-building at the start; then conflicts over working habits, solved by common rules, and personality conflicts, where negative energy harms everyone. Next come the five dysfunctions of a team and measuring results: team velocity, release frequency, and people's mood. He ends with scaling through feature teams. Useful for producers, managers and team leads.