4 Metrics to Quantify Your Software Team’s Technical Health

Team Health is often discussed or spoken to when it comes to HR or Team Leadership. It’s a term used when asking how a team is doing generally speaking and usually comes from a ‘feeling’ perspective.

The metrics we use focus on the Technical side of Team Health. Metrics that will enable you to truly impact and influence positive change.

Disclaimer

All of the things that we’re going to talk about are quite novel and experimental even for us these are ideas and techniques that we’ve developed over the past year and implemented over time and is still very much a work in progress.

Team Health.

Team health can mean a lot of things. It can mean anything from making sure that your screens are of good quality and that people have good posture to the leadership style in the company.

Thinking about Team Health, great team health could be observed as a team communicating well, delivering amazing product, passionate about what they do, and they seem to to be functioning perfectly. The flip-side of that would be a team which seems unhappy and feeling like they are unable to deliver the product. Negative Team health is typically observations made at a point in time.