Team health checks - now with more teams!
I had the chance to help out with team ( squad ) health checks again, this time with eight dev teams ( last occasion was just two ) - seven of which happened in a single week! One of the teams had done a few health checks in the years prior, and it was really cool to see their responses and approaches mature over time. As before, a ton of learning and a great experience all around, with some really cool insight from the folks participating: On the topic of 'delivering value', one team member raised his hand after the team had said their piece and noted: "You [ the team ] have been describing delivering quality. Delivering value is something else." ( which of course spurred other discussions and thoughts ) Success metrics/OKRs have the power of crystallizing the organizational mission as results Legacy code/platforms constrain present/future options ( i.e. tech debt doesn't just require recoup work in future, it prevents you from doing some things i...