id: 1225,2
title: Signals indicating a team’s health.
date: 2022-02-08

Signals indicating a team’s health.

  • Manual versus automated process: Is too much time spent unnecessarily?
  • Release frequency: What could be done to release more often?
  • Submission frequency: Is work-in-progress being adequately minimized? Is the work being decomposed into adequately sized subcomponents?
  • Incident frequency: Is the right balance between problems and defensive work being struck? Too heavy on either side contributes to burnout.

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These are mostly proxies or dependencies for velocity.

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    Camille Fournier, The Manager’s Path: A Guide for Tech Leaders Navigating Growth and Change, ed. Laurel Ruma, First Edition (Beijing: O’Reilly, 2017). (See notes.)