Run a Spotify-style squad health check with your team. 10 dimensions, traffic-light voting, trend tracking over time. Recommended once per quarter.
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A team health check is a structured retrospective exercise where team members rate different aspects of their working environment using a traffic-light system: green (great), yellow (some concerns), or red (needs attention). The format was popularised by Spotify's engineering organisation as a way to track squad health over time.
Unlike a standard retrospective, a health check covers 10 consistent dimensions across every session. That consistency is what makes trend tracking possible - you can see whether Easy to Release has been red for three quarters running, or whether a new working agreement actually improved Suitable Process scores.
A standard retro focuses on the last sprint. A health check zooms out to the team's working environment - the things that accumulate slowly and are easy to ignore until they become a crisis.
A single session is a snapshot. Multiple sessions reveal patterns. If Learning has been yellow for two quarters, that is a signal worth acting on.
Votes are hidden until the host reveals. Nobody can anchor to someone else's vote, and nobody feels singled out. You get honest signal, not diplomatic signal.
Engineering managers and agile coaches can use health check results to identify where investment is needed - whether that is tooling, process, people, or just more time to breathe.
The recommended cadence. Frequent enough to track trends, infrequent enough that each session feels meaningful rather than routine.
A big release, a migration, or a period of crunch is a good moment to check in. Teams often carry stress or technical debt they have not had time to surface.
If morale seems low or collaboration has gotten harder, a health check gives the team a structured, anonymous way to say what is going on.
Run a baseline early in the team's life. It sets expectations, starts the conversation about ways of working, and gives you a reference point for future sessions.
Host creates a room and shares the 6-character code with the team.
Everyone joins with their name - no account needed.
The facilitator walks through each of the 10 dimensions one at a time. For each one, team members privately select green, yellow, or red.
Host reveals votes for each dimension. The breakdown appears immediately - you see how many greens, yellows, and reds the team gave.
Team discusses the results, especially any dimensions with strong red or mixed signals.
Results are saved to history. The next time you run a health check, you can compare to previous sessions and spot trends.
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