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.\n\nWhy listen to this podcast:\n\n - Psychological safety \u2013 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 \u201ccrazy\u201d ideas\n - Dependability \u2013 the knowledge that team mates will deliver quality outputs and meet their commitments\n - Structure & clarity \u2013 the team has well defined roles and responsibilities, everyone knows what they are supposed to do and they do it\n - Meaning \u2013 the work has personal meaning to the individual team membersImpact \u2013 the team members can see the value they bring to the greater good through their work\n\nNotes and links can be found on: http://bit.ly/2jNF7H8\n\nYou can also subscribe to the InfoQ newsletter to receive weekly updates on the hottest topics from professional software development. bit.ly/24x3IVq