happy and productive teams | matti klasson | agile greece summit 2016

© King.com Ltd 2015 – Commercially confidential© King.com Ltd 2015 – Commercially confidential

Joined King November 2013


People Lead

Matti Klasson

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Falls between HR and Agile

Matti Klasson

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Enable small team create BIG games

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Happy and productive teams

Matti Klasson - Development People Lead

Agile Summit Greece September 2016


What’s a great team?


Understand the customers needs


Bring value to the customer as fast as

possible


Ability to adapt to change


Communication and

Transparency


Show vulnerability


Show vulnerability

Speak open


Show vulnerability

Speak open

CommitmentFollowsHealthy conflict


Show vulnerability

Speak open


100% buy-in


Show vulnerability

Speak open


100% buy-in

Focus on deliver results


Project Aristotle


Project AristotleEverybody's voice is

heard


Project AristotleEverybody's voice is

heard High ‘‘average

social sensitivity’’


About King

We make great games• We have developed more than 200 fun titles and our games can be played and enjoyed all

over the world.

• 409 million monthly active users (Q2 2016).

King has offices and studios in Stockholm, London, Barcelona, Bucharest, Malmo, Berlin, Singapore, Seattle, San Francisco, Malta, Tokyo, Seoul and Shanghai.


Some stats and factsAbout King

2000Em

ploy

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(app

rox)

Four global franchises:

Founded in 2003, 12 studios in Stockholm, London, Barcelona, Malmo, Berlin, Singapore and

Seattle.

Global leader in cross-platform casual

games.Candy Crush Pet Rescue Farm Heroes Bubble Witch


Some stats and facts

1.000.000.000.000

Millions of players around the world.

10 billion hours of played and watched time spent by players

across the Activision Blizzard group (including King) in Q2 2016

More than 1 trillion levels played!

• Games popular across platforms, and can be played anywhere, anytime on any device.

• Average daily gameplays: 1,441 million

• We had 3 of the top 15 grossing games on U.S app stores for the 10th quarter in a row (Source: App Annie monthly ranking up to

June 2016)

• Our Saga games allow players to switch platform without losing their progress.

About King


The evolution of KingAbout King

• Founded in 2003

• Originally games were only available through our site and portals including AOL and Yahoo!

Online skill Social Mobile

• Launched first game on Facebook in Q2 2011

• Launched first game on mobile H2 2012


Some of our gamesAbout King


Evolve Leadership


As we are working with lots of teams on King with different challenges - we saw a need to improve and evolve the leadership from a team perspective. Today most of this work is very reactive and in a firefighting way. We would like a more proactive way of working.

The purpose is in a organized way give our leader on King a gift of how to improve their leadership and to give our core workers a channel to give this gift.


Values Measure

Leadership Survey

Actions

FeedbackMeasure

more

360

PairCoaching

Connect theTwo tails


How good leader is Mr Toffee on a scale 1-10?


How good leader is Mr Toffee on a scale 1-10?

Why not a higher score?and

Why not a lower score?


Attributes vs No attributes


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Top unique – Positive in Test A

Positive

Numbers – top unique tags

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Top unique – Positive in test B

Positive


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Negative in test B

Negative

Numbers – top unique tags

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Negative in test A

Negative


We ran 2 sessions with leaders from both test group A and B that has received really good scores and asked them to group the tags. After they had grouped them we asked them to name the areas (Attributes). In this way we back off, and instead of assuming we understand and know what a good leader is and what attributes that defines them we let the good leaders that we have to define them.

Leadership attribute workshops


She is present and available

Available = 14 Invisible = 8, Unavailable = 32, N/A = 11, Present = 14, Role Expectations = 13

She is a person I like to work with

Friendly = 40, Communication =15 , Supportive =27, Protect the team = 9, Care about the team = 9, Approachable = 28, Listener = 30

She ensures inspiration and purpose

Ideas =11, Vision = 17, Innovative = 11, Direction =10, Passion = 17

Direction =6, Vision = 17, Innovative = 11,

She trust me Direction = 10, ,Transparency = 10,Trust = 12, Delegation = 10, Empowerment = 14

Vision = 17, Trust = 10, Delegation = 7, Micro Management = 11, Empowerment = 9, Transparency = 16

She helps me grow

Learning = 5, Feedback = 21 Learning = 7, Coaching = 7

She is a team player that gets shit done

Contributor = 12, Team player = 11, Doer =13, Domain Knowledge =36, Lead by example = 6, Knows The Customer =11

Team player = 6, Contributor = 6, Domain Knowledge = 11, Lead by example = 17

Strong Vison Direcction, Vision, Transparency, communication

Presence (Närvarnade)

Present, Approachable, Available, unavailable, invisable

Protect the team Protect the team

King Values Friendly, Passion, Doer,. Ideas, Innovative

Trust the team Delegation, Trust, Empowerment, micro management

Grow individual / Team

Feedback, Supportive, Listener Coaching

Knows the business Domain Knowledge, Knows the customer

Lead Process Learning

Laget före jaget Team Player

no category Lead by example, N/A, Leadership, Role expectation, Contributor

Group B

Group A


• Finalize the leadership attributes

• Use the data from the survey from a D&I perspective

• Use the data as input for a King leadership philosophy

• Create a lightweight survey to check-in on the leadership on regular basis

• Connect the results from the survey to leadership training and coaching.

Way forward


The pitch


The pitch100% buy-in


The pitch100% buy-inThe workshop


Trust each other


Trust each otherSpeak open


Trust each otherSpeak open

Happy and productive

© King.com Ltd 2015 – Commercially confidential© King.com Ltd 2015 – Commercially confidential

Efcharisto! Thanks! Tack!

happy and productive teams | matti klasson | agile greece summit 2016

Leadership & Management