IT Team Productivity: 3 foolproof tips to achieve productivity in your IT team. It is essential for each team member to feel part of a group that achieves good results.
Summary
Check out today's article on how to increase team productivity with three great tips. Let's go?
Behaviors that compromise
Eliminate the behaviors that compromise the Team's productivity
A survey conducted by Harris Poll for CareerBuilder pointed out the main behaviors that compromise team productivity.
The highlight of the study was the mobile: phone calls and messages are the great enemies of teams and of their good performance.
The following are others of common distractions that affect team performance, such as: gossip, excessive internet surfing, and social media.
The Frequent Breaks for snacks or smoking also compromise the good pace of work, according to Harris Poll.
Often the work environment itself can be detrimental to staff productivityIt's not just about the noise: colleagues who don't know how to dose the noise, meetings too often, and too many e-mails.
It is paramount to be aware of these aspects, to establish policies for using time for activities of personal interest, and to discipline some behaviors.
Be careful that the measures are not too aggressive and could become unpopular among employees.
Although they seek to bring benefits to everyone on the team, unpopular measures can have a negative effect compared to the behaviors they are intended to prevent.
Involve your team
Involve your team for better productivity
A great tip is to involve the team itself in solving the problem.
It is important to encourage them to feel that the problem also belongs to each member.
Once we adopt this approach, it becomes more likely to generate greater involvement and commitment in overcoming the difficulties that present themselves.
Use the right tools
Bet on the right tools for team productivity.
Today, there are many resources for increasing productivity while preserving the quality of work. Some examples are agile development methodologies, Scrum, Kanban, the Pomodoro technique, and best practices in IT management and governance.
A Pomodoro Technique is a time management method developed by Francesco Cirillo in the late 1980s. The technique consists in using a stopwatch to divide the work into periods of 25 minutes, separated by short breaks.
For each type of technique, there are appropriate toolkits. Note that today, we have excellent project management tools, I share some examples:
A good example is the tool TrelloIt aims to assist with best practices in project management and therefore facilitates the application of agile methodologies that involve the use of Kanban.
Another example is SlackA communication tool that excels in clarity and ease of use; Dropbox, Box, Onedrive, Google DriveThey allow you to share files in the cloud and access them from anywhere with Internet access;
Other Tools
Other important tools are: Office 365, Google Docs, Zoho.
You see, these productivity application packages allow not only the creation, but the collaborative editing of documents, spreadsheets, and presentations, as well as sharing.
Always remember that the key ingredient to a productive team is a good team!
Good leadership comes right after!
