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Engineering Team Health

Technical debt, toil, autonomy, and context-switching. The team health questions that generic templates miss. Designed specifically for engineering teams to surface the unique pressures of technical work.

Completion time: 5–7 minutesCadence: MonthlyBest for: Engineering teams, tech leads, and CTOsAuto-trigger: Monthly for teams with engineering role tag

Template questions (7)

  1. 1
    How much of your time this month was spent on meaningful, impactful work vs. repetitive toil or overhead?
    Opinion Scale 1–5
    1 = Almost none
    5 = Almost all
  2. 2
    How much autonomy do you have over how you approach and solve your work?
    Opinion Scale 1–5
    1 = None
    5 = Full autonomy
  3. 3
    How confident are you in the quality and reliability of what the team shipped this month?
    Opinion Scale 1–5
    1 = Not confident
    5 = Very confident
  4. 4
    How well does the team have shared context — does everyone understand what's being built and why?
    Opinion Scale 1–5
    1 = No shared context
    5 = Full shared context
  5. 5
    How sustainable is the pace of work — are we building something we can maintain long-term?
    Opinion Scale 1–5
    1 = Unsustainable
    5 = Very sustainable
  6. 6
    What's one process, tool, or practice that's slowing the team down right now?
    Open text
  7. 7
    What's one thing that, if improved, would make the biggest difference to how the team works?
    Optional
    Open text

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