TechHR
ex
L&D
UNPLUGGED
Sphere
About Us • Contact Us
People Matters ANZ
People Matters Logo
Login / Signup
People Matters Logo
Login / Signup
  • Current
  • Top Stories
  • News
  • Magazine
  • Research
  • Events
  • Videos
  • Webinars
  • Podcast

© Copyright People Matters Media Pte. Ltd. All Rights Reserved.

 

 

  • HotTopic
    HR Folk Talk FutureProofHR
  • Strategy
    Leadership Csuite StrategicHR EmployeeRelations BigInterview
  • Recruitment
    Employer Branding Appointments Permanent Hiring Recruitment
  • Performance
    Skilling PerformanceMgmt Compensation Benefits L&D Employee Engagement
  • Culture
    Culture Life@Work Diversity Watercooler SheMatters
  • Tech
    Technology HR Technology Funding & Investment Startups Metaverse
  • About Us
  • Advertise with us
  • Become a sponsor
  • Contact Us
  • Feedback
  • Write For Us

Follow us:

Privacy Policy • Terms of Use

© Copyright People Matters Media Pte. Ltd. All Rights Reserved.

People Matters Logo
  • Current
  • Top Stories
  • News
  • Magazine
  • Research
  • Events
  • Videos
  • Webinars
  • Podcast
Login / Signup

Categories:

  • HotTopic
    HR Folk Talk FutureProofHR
  • Strategy
    Leadership Csuite StrategicHR EmployeeRelations BigInterview
  • Recruitment
    Employer Branding Appointments Permanent Hiring Recruitment
  • Performance
    Skilling PerformanceMgmt Compensation Benefits L&D Employee Engagement
  • Culture
    Culture Life@Work Diversity Watercooler SheMatters
  • Tech
    Technology HR Technology Funding & Investment Startups Metaverse
How to measure the health of your tech team in a remote working set-up

Story • 2nd Sep 2022 • 2 Min Read

How to measure the health of your tech team in a remote working set-up

Strategic HREmployee EngagementCorporate Wellness Programs#Future of Work#MentalHealth#Wellbeing

Author: Aditya Chaturvedi Aditya Chaturvedi
11.2K Reads
Team leads are advised to do this health check with their respective teams at a meeting.

Many companies modified their fundamental operations in reaction to the Covid-19 pandemic to survive, and many also shifted their whole workforce online. Remote working is a new normal even for the tech teams, bringing new challenges for them to work together. While in the office, it is easier to sense the morale of individuals or teams in certain ways and take necessary measures. However, with remote operations, the task has become cumbersome.

Here is a step-by-step guide on how to measure the health of your tech/other teams in a remote working set-up:

Define: Before measuring the team's health, one needs to understand what ‘team health’ is. It can differ from team to team, based on the nature of work and KRAs. For instance, for tech, the definition can be narrowed down to the following areas:- 

  1. Behavioural - teamwork, fun at work, learning at work
  2. Tech - release management, sprint processes, code quality, monitoring 
  3. Empowerment - delivering values, pawn vs players, a bias for action

By defining certain areas of team health, it is easier to do regular health check-ups. 

Measure: It is important to determine how to measure these factors for the team. Typically, it can be challenging to assign binary yes/no responses to these factors, thus it might be helpful to get more information about how the team feels about these various areas in the context of team performance.

One can use the following parameters to measure these aspects:-

  1. Green - Awesome  
  2. Yellow - OK but not great
  3. Red - Crappy 

Spend some time selecting the right questions to comprehend these various aspects. Typically, 3–4 questions per facet are enough to grasp the general state of a particular area.

Team leads are advised to do this health check with their respective teams at a meeting (one of the retrospective meetings can be used for the same). More information and comments from team members should be recorded in addition to Green, Yellow, and Red to comprehend more. These open-ended comments are frequently quite helpful in analysing and determining the next steps.

Health check report card: This is how the overall health check report card will appear:

Note: The above report card is a visualisation created using a random dataset and does not represent any team/company data. 

Based on the results of this health check, the tech leadership might quickly pinpoint important action items. The group becomes more cognizant of both their accomplishments and their goals as a result.

These indications will alter as the needs of the job change daily, but the goal should be to turn red ones into yellow and then green while also making sure that green ones don't turn yellow.

Repeat: Your team should periodically conduct a health check, just as you would with a routine physical. All of these team health indicators will fluctuate based on fresh information, new team members, fresh endeavours, shifting business conditions, etc. The leadership should keep conducting these health checks regularly to maintain excellent health.

While half-yearly inspections are also helpful in monitoring overall team health, quarterly checks are advised if it appears to be a more significant activity given the number of teams and size of groups.

Read More

Did you find this article helpful?


You Might Also Like

How AI Can Reduce Meeting Fatigue

STORY • 19th Mar 2025 • 7 Min Read

How AI Can Reduce Meeting Fatigue

Strategic HR#DigitalTransformation#Work Culture#RemoteWork#Wellbeing#Artificial Intelligence
5 sensitive data types employees are feeding AI

STORY • 5th Mar 2025 • 5 Min Read

5 sensitive data types employees are feeding AI

Strategic HRSkillingHR Technology#AdaptableHR#Cybersecurity#Artificial Intelligence
How to Build a Powerful Reward Strategy

STORY • 25th Feb 2025 • 4 Min Read

How to Build a Powerful Reward Strategy

Strategic HRHR AnalyticsBenefits & RewardsLeadership Solutions#Career#RedefiningRewards
NEXT STORY: View from the Top | Alison Watkins of ANZ

Trending Stories

  • design-thinking-hr

    Skype is dead: Did Microsoft's leadership let a billion-doll...

  • design-thinking-hr

    Keeping the C-suite in the C-suite - how do we reduce execut...

  • design-thinking-hr

    Return to office: the legalities

  • design-thinking-hr

    The trust factor: Why modern leaders can’t afford to overl...

People Matters Logo

Follow us:

Join our mailing list:

By clicking “Subscribe” button above, you are accepting our Terms & Conditions and Privacy Policy.

Company:

  • About Us
  • Advertise with us
  • Become a sponsor
  • Privacy Policy
  • Terms of Use

Contact:

  • Contact Us
  • Feedback
  • Write For Us

© Copyright People Matters Media Pte. Ltd. All Rights Reserved.

Get the latest Articles, Insight, News & Trends from the world of Talent & Work. Subscribe now!
People Matters Logo

Welcome Back!

or

Enter your registered email address to login

Not a user yet? Lets get you signed up!

A 5 digit OTP has been sent to your email address.

This is so we know it's you. Haven't received it yet? Resend the email or then change your email ID.

People Matters Logo

Welcome! Let's get you signed up...

Starting with the absolulte basics.

Already a user? Go ahead and login!

A 5 digit OTP has been sent to your email address.

This is so we know it's you. Haven't received it yet? Resend the email or then change your email ID.

Let's get to know you better

We'll never share your details with anyone, pinky swear.

And lastly...

Your official designation and company name.