Teamwork and Productivity - Mountain Goat Software

Improving Teamwork and Productivity

When people feel like individuals in a work group instead of teammates, agile falls apart. This can be challenging to fix because it’s not necessarily a skill problem, it’s a perspective problem: people measure success by finishing their work rather than helping the team succeed.

Leaders will notice missed goals, slow delivery, and self-managing teams that don’t seem to manage themselves. The instinct is more structure and oversight, but the harder teams are pushed, the slower they get. The real fix is shifting mindsets: from my tasks to our outcome.

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75% of Cross-Functional Teams are Dysfunctional

Projects that had strong governance support — either by a higher-level cross-functional or by a single high-level executive champion — had a 76% success rate. Those with moderate governance support had a 19% success rate. (Harvard Business Review)

Teams with a strong executive champion are more likely to succeed. See below how we can help your teams.

What's Possible with MGS

Shift from individual output to team success.

We show teams how to set meaningful multi-iteration goals and align daily work to them. Through role-specific training and collaborative exercises, members learn to step outside silos, share accountability, and create a culture where success is measured by outcomes delivered together.

Make collaboration more productive than coordination.

We train teams to use sprint events as genuine opportunities for collaboration, not just reporting. With guided practice, standups, planning, and reviews become moments where problems are solved in real time, reducing rework and making delivery faster and more consistent.

Keep teams aligned without rigid rules.

We support organizations in creating improvement communities that spread good practices across teams. These groups recommend, not enforce, better ways of working, ensuring alignment grows organically. With ongoing mentoring, teams sustain productivity gains without sliding back into silos or over-reliance on process.

How We Can Help

Effective Product Owner

This configurable course helps product owners, product managers, and analysts discover user needs and capture them in a product backlog prioritized to deliver the most value.

Agile for Leaders

Rapidly and respectfully ensure executives and other leaders understand effective leadership within an agile framework.

How We've Helped Other Teams

Transforming the Department of Defense

To address the challenges of transitioning teams to agile, Mountain Goat Software developed a custom training program including two courses: Working on a Scrum Team and Effective Product Owner.

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The hands-on workshops and real-life-scenario practices reinforced their learning and boosted confidence. The training program was invaluable. It brought everyone to the change together.

Department of Defense customer

Lance's "Working on A Scrum Team" training class was informative, interactive and engaging. Our teams found the onsite group training very effective to get everyone (Product Owners, Scrum Teams, Scrum Masters) aligned on the same concept, approach, and best practices… Most importantly, he still works with scrum teams in the trenches and is able to provide thoughtful suggestions for difficult situations.

Lu F.
Director PMO