How to Assemble a Team
Arne Roock Arne Roock

How to Assemble a Team

Assembling a team is more than just informing the right people that they are a team now. We can learn a bunch from Danny in Ocean’s Eleven.

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Who Should Be on the Team?
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Who Should Be on the Team?

This post discusses two social abilities that are under-appreciated when thinking about effective teams: collective orientation and social sensitivity

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Thoughts on Company Values
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Thoughts on Company Values

Coming up with a set of company values can be a helpful exercise, or an exercise in frustration. This post explores a couple of pitfalls which can cause the latter.

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Back to Project Teams?
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Back to Project Teams?

Stable, cross-functional teams solved a lot of problems, but they are obviously not perfect. We can now observe a trend towards more fluid teams.

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Designing Multi Team Systems
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Designing Multi Team Systems

We have learned how to solve many problems in software development by forming focused. cross-functional teams. But what if we work in a multi team system?

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Building a Team of Teams (1/3)
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Building a Team of Teams (1/3)

Marcin and I are exploring the differences between what we call a Group of Teams and a Team of Teams. It involves relay races and rugby.

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What are Floating Teams
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What are Floating Teams

Floating Teams are an interesting option to create teams that are small, stable and cross-functional - something which is very hard to achieve otherwise.

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Adjusting Goals to Teams?
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Adjusting Goals to Teams?

What are the pros and cons of building goals and tasks around existing team structures vs. doing the opposite? What can we do to find our sweet spot?

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Are Smaller Teams Better?
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Are Smaller Teams Better?

The question of the “right” team size is more nuanced than often assumed. In this post I discuss some aspects that are often neglected.

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Divide-Conquer-Integrate?
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Divide-Conquer-Integrate?

In this post I discuss a common pattern for building new functionality that requires multiple product teams to collaborate: the divide-conquer-integrate pattern.

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Cross-functional Teams
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Cross-functional Teams

This post explores the topic of cross-functionality and links it to the dimensions of team size and team stability - featuring the A-Team.

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Leadership Development
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Leadership Development

In this post I discuss some of the hidden assumptions in organizations that make it hard to have great leadership development programs.

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Zusammen mit meinem Bruder Stefan gebe ich die Schulung
“Team of Teams: Mit vielen Teams schneller liefern.”
Datum: 07./08.05.2026
Ort: Hamburg
Sprache: Deutsch
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