Social Contracts for Engineering Teams - Finding the Right Glue to Help Your Teamwork Stick

Explore the concept of social contracts for engineering teams in this insightful conference talk from YOW! 2018. Discover how to transform implicit team agreements into explicit, jointly-owned social contracts that enhance teamwork and performance. Learn effective techniques for explaining the value proposition to technically-focused team members, addressing common dysfunctions in engineering teams, and guiding your team through the process of building and maintaining a social contract. Gain practical insights from real-life examples and understand how social contract theory can be applied to reinforce desired teamwork aspects as your organization scales. Equip yourself with strategies to create clear, visible, and mutually agreed-upon "how-we-work" agreements that can propel your engineering team into high-performance mode.

Social Contracts for Engineering Teams • Kate Andrews • YOW! 2018