PEER REVIEW ASSIGNMENT

Challenge & Selection

I am a part of an IT team in my current employer. We get too many tasks and projects that are  somehow managed by our team coordinator, with the super important task of managing and  delegating those chores. However, the people skills and competences are not always aligned  with the chores distribution and my coordinator is not able to do the right macromanagement  of the team.

The first tool I used was the tool of Visualization to achieve a shared understanding of a problem.  I learned a few things from the video in ‘Visualization Tools’ and used a bit of storytelling as well.  This helped the team to reach a common ground.

Application

For this situation, visualization is the most pertinent approach, as said. We would do the perfect  assessment of each team member’ skills and competences so that we could clearly define who  is best at doing what. Obviously, this should be a team task, so that everyone agrees and  contributes for this assessment, mostly agreeing on the own mapped competences.

Also, with it, it would be of major importance to agree on a tool that would allow to map  incoming projects and tasks with the required competences and skills to best perform them.  With it, the whole team should agree on a major extended list of possible skills and competences  that should be relevant for an IT engineer and with it, the perfect cluster of these skills as an  interface to the projects to come.

The projects incoming would be perfectly mapped in these clusters of skills and, with it,  underlining the most relevant skills and competences to complete them. Finally, we would  automatically be able to perfectly identify the perfect match between the project requirements   skills’ clusters requirements  best engineer to perform the project.

Insight

What I have learned from conducting this exercise is that we should not be scared of the  problem at hand and tackle it in a calm and composed way. It was a great idea to conduct the  ‘all team’ session as it helped all the members reach a common ground and it turned out to be  a bonding period as well!

Approach

What I would do differently next time is that I won’t wait for such an issue to rise up to the level  where individual sessions were necessary. I would tackle the problem early so it gives us more  time to implement our new ideas.


PEER REVIEW ASSIGNMENT Challenge & Selection I am a part of an IT team in my current employer . We get too many tasks and projects that are somehow managed by our team coordinator , with the super important task of managing and delegating those chores . However , the people skills and competences are not always aligned with the chores distribution and my coordinator is not able to do the right macromanagement of the team . The first tool I used was the tool of Visualization to achieve a shared understanding of a problem . I learned a few things from the video in ‘ Visualization Tools ’ and used a bit of storytelling as well . This helped the team to reach a common ground . Application For this situation , visualization is the most pertinent approach , as said . We would do the perfect assessment of each team member ’ skills and competences so that we could clearly define who is best at doing what . Obviously , this should be a team task , so that everyone agrees and contributes for this assessment , mostly agreeing on the own mapped competences . Also , with it , it would be of major importance to agree on a tool that would allow to map incoming projects and tasks with the required competences and skills to best perform them . With it , the whole team should agree on a major extended list of possible skills and competences that should be relevant for an IT engineer and with it , the perfect cluster of these skills as an interface to the projects to come . The projects incoming would be perfectly mapped in these clusters of skills and , with it , underlining the most relevant skills and competences to complete them . Finally , we would automatically be able to perfectly identify the perfect match between the project requirements  skills ’ clusters requirements  best engineer to perform the project . Insight What I have learned from conducting this exercise is that we should not be scared of the problem at hand and tackle it in a calm and composed way . It was a great idea to conduct the ‘ all team ’ session as it helped all the members reach a common ground and it turned out to be a bonding period as well ! Approach What I would do differently next time is that I wo n’t wait for such an issue to rise up to the level where individual sessions were necessary . I would tackle the problem early so it gives us more time to implement our new ideas .