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Roles and Responsibilities

Workshop by Atlassian Team Playbook

A team exercise for making responsibilities, overlaps, and unowned work visible before those gaps cause delivery problems.

What to look for

01
Compare what each person believes they own with what others expect.
02
Resolve important overlaps and gaps explicitly rather than only updating a chart.

Keep in mind

A workshop records an agreement at a point in time. Revisit it when the team, interfaces, or work changes.

Put it to work

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Run the exercise around a recurring handoff that currently depends on someone volunteering to rescue it.

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Notes and exercises by Awesome CTO. The original work belongs to Atlassian Team Playbook.

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