Team Health Check

The health check based on the Spotify model: teams rate nine dimensions in traffic-light format – from mission via pace to fun.

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Team Health Check – questionnaire preview

The Squad Health Check, developed and openly published by Henrik Kniberg and colleagues at Spotify, has become the standard for agile team diagnostics: teams rate key dimensions of their collaboration in traffic-light format – deliberately subjective, deliberately simple. This template turns the workshop format into an asynchronous survey with nine generalised dimensions from “mission” via “delivery pace” and “learning” to “fun”. That makes the check scalable across many teams and quarters – but discussing the results still belongs in the team, for example in the retrospective. Traffic-light data is a conversation starter, not a management steering KPI.

When should you use this template?

This template is a great fit for:

  • Quarterly per team as a baseline before the retrospective
  • Across many teams to spot patterns (e.g. “pace” red everywhere)
  • After reorganisations to track the effect on team health

Every question in this template

  1. 1

    How healthy is our team in the following areas? *

    Green = going well · Amber = so-so · Red = needs attention

    Matrix
    Red – needs attentionAmber – so-soGreen – going well
    Mission – we know why our team exists and what it should achieve.
    Delivering value – we regularly ship results that benefit our customers.
    Pace – we make progress without unnecessary waiting and blockers.
    Process – the way we work suits our tasks.
    Quality – we are proud of what we deliver.
  2. 2

    Compared with three months ago: how is our team developing?

    Single choice
    • Much better
    • Somewhat better
    • Unchanged
    • Somewhat worse
    • Much worse
  3. 3

    What is the one improvement that would help our team most next quarter?

    Long text

From questionnaire to dashboard

The dashboard turns individual traffic lights into your organisation's health board:

  • Health board: dimensions × teams: The classic squad health view: all dimensions crossed with teams as a heatmap. Red columns reveal systemic issues, red rows teams that need support.
  • Traffic-light distribution per dimension: 100% stacked bars in green/amber/red per dimension – the whole-organisation view at a glance.
  • Health trend across quarters: The share of green ratings as a line per wave – is working here getting better or worse right now?
  • Self-perceived trend: The “better or worse than three months ago?” question as a donut – often more revealing than the absolute traffic-light state.
  • Improvement topics: The open question on the one improvement, clustered via AI topic analysis – ready to use in the next retro.

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Frequently asked questions

Survey or workshop – which is better?
Both have their place. Spotify designed the check as a facilitated workshop; the survey form scales better across many teams and yields comparable data over time. The combination works best: collect asynchronously, but always discuss the results in a team workshop or retro.
Should managers see team results?
The team should see and interpret its results first. At organisation level, aggregated patterns are valuable (e.g. “pace is amber everywhere”) – but avoid team rankings: as soon as the traffic light becomes a performance metric, every answer turns green and the check is worthless.
Can we adapt the dimensions?
Yes – the nine dimensions are a proven starting point based on the openly published Spotify model (Kniberg). Add or replace individual matrix rows, but keep the list under twelve dimensions and stable across waves so trends stay comparable.

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