Team Health Radar

A fast, holistic pulse on team ownership, value, alignment, communication, roles, velocity, support, process, and fun.

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Map the strengths and stress points across your team

Give your team a shared, honest snapshot of how things really feel across the dimensions that matter most. Team Health Radar guides members through reflecting on ownership, value, alignment, communication, and more — surfacing strengths to celebrate and friction points to address before they become blockers. By making the conversation visible and repeatable, teams build the trust and clarity needed to improve together, sprint after sprint.

Dimensions

Team Health

Core dimensions that capture how the team is performing, collaborating, and feeling about their work.

  • Ownership

    The team has clear ownership or a dedicated product owner who is accountable for the team's results and champions the mission inside and outside of the team.

    • No clear owner
    • Some ownership
    • Strong ownership

  • Value

    We can define and measure the value we provide to the business and the user.

    • Value unclear
    • Value emerging
    • Value measured

  • Goal Alignment

    Everyone understands why they are here, supports the idea, and believes they have what it takes to create solutions that add value.

    • Misaligned
    • Partly aligned
    • Fully aligned

  • Communication

    We have clear and consistent communication that ensures that issues are shared, conflict is reduced, and everyone can work with greater efficiency.

    • Poor
    • Inconsistent
    • Clear & open

  • Team Roles

    The current team skill set is right for the current stage and there are clear roles and responsibilities for each person in the team.

    • Unclear roles
    • Partly defined
    • Clear roles

  • Velocity

    We learn and implement lessons leading to incremental progress in iterations and production as we go.

    • Stalled
    • Steady
    • Accelerating

  • Support and Resources

    We are equipped with the right tools and resources and can easily access support from within and outside the team.

    • Lacking
    • Adequate
    • Well supported

  • Process

    Our processes are aligned, effective, and free of unnecessary delays and blocks. We have metrics in place to measure our goals.

    • Chaotic
    • Workable
    • Optimized

  • Fun

    We enjoy our work and working as a team. We are being challenged and can develop our skill set or acquire new ones.

    • Draining
    • Okay
    • Energizing

When to use this health check

  • During regular retrospectives to track how team health changes over time
  • When onboarding a new team or product owner to establish a shared baseline
  • After a period of rapid growth, reorganization, or change to spot emerging friction
  • When a team feels stuck or morale is dipping and you need to pinpoint why
  • Ahead of planning a new quarter or initiative to confirm the team is set up to succeed

Tips & tricks

  • Run the check anonymously the first time to encourage candid responses
  • Repeat the assessment every few sprints and compare results to spot trends
  • Focus discussion on the one or two dimensions with the widest spread of scores
  • Pair low-scoring dimensions with concrete action items and an owner
  • Celebrate the high-scoring dimensions to reinforce what's working well

Frequently asked questions

What is the Team Health Radar?
It is a holistic health check that lets agile teams rate themselves across nine dimensions — ownership, value, goal alignment, communication, team roles, velocity, support and resources, process, and fun — to reveal strengths and areas for improvement.
How often should we run it?
Most teams run it every few sprints or once a quarter, which is frequent enough to track trends without survey fatigue.
Who should take part?
Everyone on the team, including the product owner or team lead, so the radar reflects the full range of perspectives.
What do the ratings mean?
Each dimension is rated on a 1-5 scale, from a low anchor describing where the team struggles to a high anchor describing a healthy, well-functioning state.
What do we do with the results?
Discuss the dimensions with the lowest scores or widest disagreement, agree on a small number of concrete actions with owners, and revisit them in the next check.