Steve Garrett

I’d also be interested. I’m thinking a lot about grant giving and management which I think has some similarities.

21.01.2025 13:55 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Did you make any decisions? I’m interested in this from the perspective of starting a blog.

18.10.2024 17:13 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

We’re doing our best and keen to work with others. @simoneverest.bsky.social could be something we work with you and your team and some more of the DCMS family on?

14.10.2024 21:08 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Reference should be restaurant 🤣 need to keep the food theme 🥗🥪

27.09.2024 11:11 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

There was a great question about this on the day. Some great work by Matthew Skelton and Manuel Pais on Team Topologies was referenced. Perhaps a reference analogy will come in useful?

27.09.2024 09:55 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Yup, keep your eyes peeled for the next one 👀

27.09.2024 09:50 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Beware of the Team Doughnut This blog post by Steve Garrett was adapted by Cassie Burgess and Simon Pang for the Service Design in Government, 2024 conference. Thank you to everyone who came to the talk. And sorry to those who w...

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👀 Read my blog post = the seed of the #SDinGov talk
wearesportengland.org/2024/04/12/beware-of-the-team-doughnut
✅ Check you can map your individual involvement in a piece of work to @ewebber.bsky.social's Team Onion model. Teamonion.works
👋 Say hi if you're working on similar stuff

26.09.2024 10:53 — 👍 7    🔁 1    💬 2    📌 0

screen grab of the slide showing how we’re trying to fix and avoid the Team Doughnut.

I 💛how we were able to share some of what Sport England has learnt since we've begun to organise teams around services pretty recently. Showing vulnerability in a space where others are facing similar challenges felt good. Turns out others are struggling too. Here’s how we’re fixing things.

26.09.2024 10:51 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

screengrab of the slide we used to make the point that when supporters and collaborators span both roles and there's no core team, the team is doughnut shaped

They gave 2 egs of where our team shapes became obstacles to delivering. In each case, we realised they more closely resembled doughnuts than the well-established Team Onion model created by @ewebber.bsky.social
Eg1, supporters and collaborators spanning both roles + small core = doughnut shaped

26.09.2024 10:49 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

photograph of Cassie and Simon presenting in front of a big screen showing the headline slide

Last week, at @sdingov.bsky.social my brilliant Sport England colleagues @casseroleburgers.bsky.social and @simonpang.bsky.social gave a talk called Beware of the Team Doughnut 🍩 It's about the importance of team shape and why – when we didn't get that right – it was detrimental to our delivery.

26.09.2024 10:38 — 👍 15    🔁 2    💬 2    📌 2

Let me know when you find out.

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