Description
A State of the Team is a gathering of multiple teams to understand what has been accomplished by each team, and what is needed from other teams, functional groups, or leadership. The state of the team allows all stakeholders to understand a global view of all status and progress. This allows leadership to assess the organizational risk profile, and determine where support is needed, as well as an opportunity for teams to learn what others are experiencing. It is an important tool to build trust and understand progress at an organizational level.
Typical Roles
Agile Leader
Agile Team
Product Owner
Scrum Master
Desired Behaviors
- 1.
Create a schedule of State of the Team meetings.
- 2.
Develop a simple agenda that is common for all team. Teams should not have to prepare, but should be able to summarize information they are already collecting from daily stand-ups, retrospectives, and sprint demos.
- 3.
Go beyond status and capture the best ways to solve each team’s problems with the collective experience in the room.
- 4.
Stay agile. The meeting time will depend on the number of teams; however, a good rule of thumb is 15 minutes per team.