 Hi Jeff Watts here, and I'm really excited to tell you about my new Kickstarter campaign Which is about me launching my fourth book team mastery with milestone cards So I've written three books in the past two of which are about some of the roles in scrum teams So I've written scrum mastery for scrum masters, and I've written product mastery for product owners But no one really writes much about the team and let's be honest it's the development team that actually gets stuff done and self-organization a High-functioning team is paramount to getting good results in any kind of agile context So what does great teamwork look like this book? Not only will help you understand the difference between good teams and great teams But I'll give you some tools and techniques to help you chart your progress towards team mastery This is a completely unique book Not only will it have narrative case studies theory, but it will also contain Milestones cards that you can pull out and use to visually chart that team's pathway to greatness Now it was inspired by another trilogy of mine Which was when my wife and I recently had our third child and we came across a new product of baby Milestone cards the idea being that you get a set of cards that you can photograph with your baby when they reach certain Milestones in their development such as you know sleeping through the night for the first time still waiting for that one When they survived their first poon army, which is a word that I've just come across Google it if you want or you know the their first solid food or get their first tooth You know you can have a visual Capturing of that milestone with a card and so I thought all is there something that's similar that we could do for teams So I've knocked up a really low-fi prototype. It's not to scale It doesn't have the right images or anything This is just to show you a rough idea of what it might look like in the end So it would be a normal book. It would have a front cover obviously not this one It would have a table of contents just like any other book. It would have chapters. It would have Theory it will have stories. It will have other chapters and It will have milestone cards that are on perforated pages that chart the important development points of a team So perhaps we had our first argument and the world didn't end Perhaps we had another story perhaps we failed but it's okay because we owned it We found out why we plan to fix it We plan to avoid it again and we told people about it and this could come out on perforated pages and on the Back I said today we fail. That's okay. The risks associated with failure. Well, we need psychological safety It could be an excuse to just be lazy and indisciplined, but there are a number of rewards that come along with failure We become more resilient. We become more creative. We get better ideas There are rituals that we can put in place to help make failure more Successful more valuable more useful and there are a number of resources that you could scan the QR codes of and find books Videos articles blog posts think tools techniques that people can use to help with failure So that's a brief overview of the book. I think it's going to be great I send it all teams could benefit from so why am I doing a Kickstarter campaign for it? Well, it's expensive to get going. So it's a unique book. It's going to be a hybrid book It's going to have perforated pages within the book that you can take out. It's not just a normal book Which is going to have higher production costs But also there's a lot of illustration involved here So I'm hiring some fantastic illustrators to help make these cards really really beautiful and and it requires a lot of upfront costs I don't have a big publisher behind me. Unfortunately. So while it's not cheap to get going It is going to be awesome And if you are one of my Kickstarter Contributors one of the team there are a number of benefits that you can get by joining in early At the very very least with the minimum pledge You will get a copy of the book with an exclusive Kickstarter edition cover and the Actual number copy of the book within that first edition printed on the cover You will have that your own but also you will have that before the general release goes on sale a month later There are other tiers. You can get signed copies. You can get digital copies You can get audio copies. You can get your name in the credits in the book You can get sneak peeks into the development process of the book along the way You can get tickets to the launch party, but all of these rewards are not only time limited They have to be funded by the end of August, but they're also number limited as well There are only a certain number of signed copies available only a certain number of launch party tickets available So if you want one of those benefits, you'll have to sign up quickly I'm looking forward to working with some of you on this and looking forward to you helping me Help teams go from good to great