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Team Assessment
Part of the TCF: The Team Coaching Framework

Every team is unique!
•  Each team has different strengths and challenges
•  This means each team requires a different focus.
•  The TCF allows for coaches and teams to understand the team situation more quickly.
•  It provides tools and content that allows for an accelerated learning path.
•  It is independent of any speciﬁc agile framework or approach that the Team may
adopt, whether Kanban, Scrum or XP.
•  The TCF is a compilation of the collective learning of agile42 coaches for the pas
decade.

TCF Overview
• Team Assessment
•  Understand the status quo
•  Determine the focus

• Coaching Cards
•  From observations and hypotheses
•  To goals, tools and metrics
• Coaching Tools
•  Tools to inﬂuence team behaviour

TCF - Team Assessments
• Different team assessments
• Agile Principles
• Kanban Depth
• Team Behaviour
• Technical Practices
• Soft Skills

Why an assessment?
• But more importantly – why not!
• Not because we want to compare teams
• Not because we want to follow a checklist
• Not because we want to check compliance

So Why Then?
• We want groups of people to become ‘teams’
• We want teams to identify opportunities
• We want teams to own their own process

12 Agile Principles Assessment
• Let’s focus on one of the assessments
•  the 12 Agile Principles Assessment.
•  The 12 principles are part of the Agile Manifesto.
• We ask teams to evaluate themselves based on 36
statements around these 12 principles.
• The goal is not to collect numbers, but to facilitate a
discussion and create a team consensus and identify
opportunities for improvement.

Group exercise
• We will tell you a story about a team.
• Listen carefully because we will only tell it once.
• You should imagine you are part of this team, if
it helps you can imagine you can identify
yourself with one of the individual team
members.
• Story time …..

Once upon a time …

•  There was a team:
•  John: A backend specialist, is not really keen on other things.
•  Samantha: A frontend developer, who would like to learn backend programming.
•  David: A data specialist who is also an ok front end developer.
•  Ben: A frontend specialist, and prefers to stick to that.
•  Ellen: The Product Owner who’s also the VP Product Development.
•  Philip: He was quite pleased with his promotion to Scrum Master.
•  The team has gotten a Scrum training 2 months ago and just completed their 4th Sprint.
•  During Sprint planning they have no trouble selecting the stories for their Sprint because they have spent some time with the PO refining the Product
Backlog.
•  A few new User Stories were identified at the last Sprint Review based on discussions with the stakeholders.
•  David was on vacation the last week of the 4th Sprint and the team had trouble finishing some stories due to data management issues.
•  The team has a good Definition of Done which is understood well by the whole Scrum team.
•  In the last retrospective some areas of improvement were identified, but not everyone is convinced it was worth spending 1.5hrs in this meeting.

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Rather than us explaining this ….
…. we would like you to experience this yourself!

Agile Principle
At regular intervals, the team reﬂects on how to become more
effective, then tunes and adjusts its behaviour accordingly

• Statement:
• The Scrum Team is aware that true continuous improvement is starting
from openly sharing experience and accepting mistakes as an
opportunity to learn
• Statement:
• The Scrum Team is using metrics to help them measure their
performance and identify areas of improvement

Agile Principle
Build projects around motivated individuals. Give them the environment
and support their need, and trust them to get the job done.
• Statement:
• Team members know what the other members can do, and they respect
their contribution
• Statement:
• The Scrum Team has a clear Vision and they share that Vision on a daily
basis

Let’s hear from the groups
• What are some insights?
• Are there differences between groups?

Now what?
What to do with the outcome?

Accelerators Breaks
Goals & TryKeep
Active Learning
Cycle provides
guidance on what to
change and what to
expect from the
changes…
TDD on hard
story
Delay with
designers
Next: TDD on
one story
Working Agreements!
1.  We want to pair when stories
are bigger than 2 points, so
that we reduce risk
2.  We want to work with
ATDD on all stories, so that
we will have a cleaner
design
3.  ...
Deﬁnition of Done!
✓  Integrated in the staging
system
✓  all acceptance criteria are
fulfilled
✓  no regression
✓  PO has seen the story
✓  Performance ok
Deﬁnition of Ready!
✓  User Story format
✓  Max 5pt.
✓  INVEST
✓  At least 2 Acceptance
Criteria
All Stories worked
with TDD
No extra effort for
infrastructure
Doing TDD on
everything
1 size > estimated
90% coverage of the
code

Goal
Leading
Indicators
Lagging
Indicators
Coaching Tools
Goal 1
Leading
Indicators
Lagging
Indicators
Coaching Tools
Goal 2
Leading
Indicators
Lagging
Indicators
Coaching Tools
Goal 3
Leading
Indicators
Lagging
Indicators
Coaching Tools
Goal 4
Leading
Indicators
Lagging
Indicators
Coaching Tools
Coaching Card
CoachingStructure
Build a Coaching Structure

Online resources for Coaching Cards and Tools
• Try it yourself, sign up at:
• http://tcf.agile42.com

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