Running Agile

A Practitioner's View To Lean & Agile

Signs of a high performing team

Posted by Christophe on December 23, 2007

I’m often asked how to measure the performance of a team. People want usually to hear a list of metrics. I instead point them to 6 principles that, when demonstrated, are strong signs of a high performing team:

  • a high service level and availability of their product/system
  • a high throughput of effective change
  • a low amount of unplanned work
  • a culture of change management
  • a culture of continual improvement
  • a culture of root-cause analysis

Building specific metrics around those principles shouldn’t be hard. They would just need to support those principles and not go against them.

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