IT Team Productivity: 3 sure-fire tips for achieving productivity in your IT team. It is essential for every 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 excellent tips. Let's go?
Behaviors that compromise
Eliminate behaviors that compromise team productivity
A survey carried out by Harris Poll for CareerBuilder pointed out the main behaviors that compromise team productivity.
The highlight of the study was the cell phonephone calls and messages are the greatest enemies of teams and their good performance.
The following are some of the common distractions that affect team performance: gossip, internet surfing and excessive social media.
The Frequent breaks for snacks or smoking also jeopardize the good pace of work, according to the Harris Poll.
Often the working environment itself can hinder team productivitycolleagues who don't know how to deal with noise, meetings too often and too many emails.
It is essential to pay attention to these aspects, establish policies for using time for activities of personal interest and discipline certain behaviors.
Make sure that the measures are not too aggressive and could become unpopular among employees.
Despite seeking 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 your own team in solving the problem.
It's important to encourage them to feel that it's their problem too.
Once we adopt this approach, we are more likely to generate greater involvement and commitment in overcoming the difficulties that arise.
Use the right tools
Bet on the right tools for team productivity.
Nowadays, there are many resources for increasing productivity while preserving the quality of work. Some examples are agile development methodologies, Scrum, Kanban, the Pomodoro technique, as well as 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 of using a stopwatch to divide work into 25-minute periods, separated by short breaks.
For each type of technique, there are suitable sets of tools. Note that today, we have excellent project management tools, and I'll share a few examples:
A good example is the TrelloKanban: it aims to help with best practices in project management and therefore facilitates the application of agile methodologies that involve the use of Kanban.
Another example is Slackcommunication tool that excels in clarity and ease of use; Dropbox, Box, Onedrive, Google DriveThe best way to share files in the cloud and access them from anywhere is with Internet access;
Other tools
Other important tools are: Office 365, Google Docs, Zoho.
Note that these productivity application packages allow not only the creation but also the collaborative editing of documents, spreadsheets and presentations, as well as sharing.
We must always remember that the key ingredient for a productive team is a good team!
Good leadership follows!
