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Owned by Alden Kamaunu, created
May 03, 2022
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Use the project team health monitor template to keep track of your team's health. Keep this template in your team space and if there are any areas that you're not confident are green, dive into the plays to get back on track. For detailed facilitation instructions go to health monitor for project teams.

 

Team name

 

Team name

 

Sponsor

 

Health monitor cadence

 

 

Team health assessment

With your team, read the definition of each attribute of healthy, high-performing teams out loud. On the count of three have each person rate how they feel the team is doing compared to each definition (thumbs-up/green, thumbs-sideways/yellow, thumbs-down/red). Record the results of each attribute rating in the table. Highlight each cell using this color code:Healthy = "We're strong here", Bit sick = "We're ok... but a little shaky", sick = "We're not healthy".

Area

May 2, 2022

Area

May 2, 2022

 Full-time owner


There is one lead who is accountable for the result of this project. This needs to be someone whose time is at least 80% dedicated to it, and who can champion the mission inside and outside of the team.

 

 

 

 Balanced team


Roles and responsibilities are clear and agreed upon. The project has people with the right blend of skill set. Acknowledge that team members can change by stage.

 

 

 

 Shared understanding


The team has a common understanding of why they're here, the problem/need, are convinced about the idea, confident they have what they need, and trust each other.

 

 

 

 Value and metrics


It's clear what success means from a business and user's perspective, and there is a unique value proposition in place for the target users and to the business. Success is defined, with a goal, and how it will be measured.

 

 

 

 Proof of concept


Some sort of demonstration has been created and tested, that demonstrates why this problem needs to be solved, and demonstrates its value.

 

 

 

 One-pager


The project is summarized in a one-pager and shared with anyone so that they understand the purpose of the project, and its value.

 

 

 

 Managed dependencies


Clear understanding of complexity, infrastructure involved, risks, resources, effort, and timeline. Clear understanding of who we depend on, and who depends on us.

 

 

 Velocity


VelThe team is makingocity incremental progress by shipping concrete iterations to stakeholders (and, even better, to production), learning along the way, and implementing lessons learned, resulting in greater success.

 

 

 

 

 Focus areas

Ask your team to collectively come up with one attribute you want to focus on. Then, call out ways to move thesickorBit sicktowardHealthy. Make sure they are actionable, specific, and measurable.

Date

Focus areas and action items

Date

Focus areas and action items

 

 

 

 

 Next steps

Consider running the plays in suggested in Step 2 of the facilitation instructions for improvingBit sickandsick attribute areas. Don't treat these as prescriptions! You know your team better than anyone, so check them out, explore other plays, and do what you think is best.