Scrum Team Self-Assessment
One of my colleagues Ton Van Kaam (he works in Netherlands) mentioned about a spreadsheet to check how healthy is Scrum Team. Metrics are not on my top list to follow but I would like to explore every Agile metrics before deciding about how good (or bad) it is.
After reading a little about Scrum Team Self-Assessment I realized that this metrics is focused on check about the process so I started using it but without showing to my teams. Why? Because I prefer to validate the results before creating any panic on team members.
How does it work?
Well, you can validate different aspects of the process such as:
- Product Owner: there are many features that provides information such as:
- There is a person who fulfills the role (you have to enter a number in a scale from 0 to 100)
- Product Owner write and prioritize user stories
- Product Owner listens suggestions from the architect and development team and stakeholders.
- Product Owner is local or remote
- Product Owner has the skills to bring the vision to others
- Product Owner defines the Sprint Goal
- Scrum Master
- There is a person appointed to fill the role of Scrum Master (with the same scale defined above)
- Scrum Master facilitates Stand up, Sprint Planning and Sprint Retrospective
- Scrum Master helps to propagate and explain Scrum. Both to the Scrum Team and to third parties who are in contact with the Scrum Team.
- Scrum Master is a servant leader, he leads by coach and train, not to say what to do next.
- Development Team
- Development team size 6+- 3 professionals
- There are not sub-teams within the team
- Team members are dedicated assigned to the team (>80%)
- Product Backlog
- Sprint Backlog
- Increment
- Sprint
- Sprint Planning
- There is a sprint planning
- Held within the first eight hours of the Sprint
- Daily Scrum:
- Every day, same time, same place
- The entire team is present, remote team dialing
- Sprint Review
- Sprint Retrospective You can add more features or remove some aspects in order to start with something simpler.
Last but not least, take the Agile value “Individuals and interactions” into account so every metric can be good but you should focus on metrics if your team is new!!!!