A user manual for me
I’ve seen some people share their designs about a Service Design Manual for Me recently and thought hmm I need one of those.
This is a useful thing for new starters and existing people in a team / organisation know how to get the best working relationship and achieve desired goals.
What is my User Manual?
This is a process that is most often found in Agile teams working together on common goals. It can be used to help bring together resources from a range of teams and locations and to get the best out of people.
There is a team playbook available via Atlassian if you want to run this with your own teams that takes a couple of hours available here and some examples that gave me inspiration here
The high level things I focused on were:
- Conditions I like to work in
- Times / Hours I like to work
- The best ways to communicate with me
- The ways I like to receive feedback
- Things I need
- Things I struggle with
- Things I love
- Other things to know about me
It was good to reflect about my approach to work and working style preferences. I used this to share with my team and I’ll encourage contributions from all team members with a hope that we all get to know a bit more about each other and our preferences for working that lead to better outcomes.
I’ll keep this as a live document and review every now and again.
References:
- Atlassian (2022.). How to create a personal user manual for work. [online] Atlassian. Available at: https://www.atlassian.com/team-playbook/plays/my-user-manual#instructions.
