What are your team's most effective practices?

Steve Arneson

I want to explore (and shamelessly steal) a term that a reader coined this past week in the comments section of this column. In case you missed it, the reader weighed in with this gem… “It’s about time we all stopped using the term "best practice" - really, it's almost impossible to say that one practice is going to be the best one across industries and organizations. I think we need to start using the term ‘effective practice’… it's our job to determine which practices and which examples are going to be the best fit for our own organizations, rather than to simply adopt practices that have worked somewhere else.”
Taken by itself, I think that’s a profound statement; one that could spark some interesting dialog for you and your colleagues. It’s the term “effective practice” that caught my eye, though, and got me to thinking about this question: “what are your team’s most effective practices?” In other words, what would others around the organization say your team does really well? What is your team known for? And more importantly, do you (and the team) know what those things are?

Take a stab at a quick “Top 10” list of macro practices that your team probably engages, clicking here