In this podcast Shane Hastie, InfoQ Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Matt Sakaguchi about his talk at QCon San Francisco 2016 and the research Google has done on what makes effective teams.

Why listen to this podcast:

- Psychological safety – people feel comfortable taking a risk or asking a question and know they will be supported by their team mates, they feel safe to share personal and “crazy” ideas

- Dependability – the knowledge that team mates will deliver quality outputs and meet their commitments

- Structure & clarity – the team has well defined roles and responsibilities, everyone knows what they are supposed to do and they do it

- Meaning – the work has personal meaning to the individual team membersImpact – the team members can see the value they bring to the greater good through their work

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