Team (Squad) health check web application is a tool for quick assessment and visualization of how Agile teams perform in three aspects: tech health, team health, and product health. It uses a set of behaviour anchors on relevant themes for a high performing team to discuss and capture sentiment. For each question or theme, the team/squad discusses if they are closer to “awesome” or closer to “bad”, which colour to choose for that indicator, and what the trend is (stable, improving, or getting worse). For example, the theme "can we release easily?" might elicit responses of "our releases are good/meh/bad" i.e. green, amber and red, the colours of a traffic light.
GREEN: Things are going very well. Although this does not mean
that everything is perfect the team or squad is satisfied and does not see much space for
improvement.
AMBER: There are some problems that need to be solved. However,
it is not a disaster.
RED: There is a lot going wrong. Improvements are urgently needed.
The main purpose of this model is to help teams build up self-awareness about what's working and what's not, and to identify improvement opportunities. It also provides leaders with a way to support, not judge, teams. The app gathers feedback from everyone in real time and calculates the results. The results are displayed in a multi-team-level visualization, so that patterns and trends can be observed and addressed. The app can also keep a track of the squads progress over time without the need for manual collation.