Questions for Sensing Organization Health
These questions can help an organization discover the answer:
- Have we misunderstood how users need/want to behave?
- Do we need to change team-interaction modes to enhance how the organization is working?
- Should we still be building thing X in house? Should we be renting it from an external provider?
- Is the close collaboration between Team A and Team B still effective? Should we move toward an X-as-a-Service model?
- Is the flow of work for Team C as smooth as it could be? What hampers flow?
- Does the platform for teams D, E, F, and G provide everything those teams need? Is an enabling team needed for a period of time?
- Are the promises between these two teams still valid and achievable? What needs to change to make the promises more realistic? (Skelton and Pais 2019, chap. 8)
Skelton, Matthew, and Manuel Pais. 2019. Team Topologies: Organizing Business and Technology Teams for Fast Flow. IT Revolution Press LLC.