Delivery and technology
Agile team
How well a delivery team plans, flows, learns and works together. Fits Scrum, Kanban and hybrid teams.
4 areas · 10 capabilities · 26 questions · answered on a scale from “Agree” to “Disagree”
Maturity levels
- Beginning Agile ceremonies or boards exist, but the way of working depends on a few people and slips under pressure.
- Practising The team follows its agreed practices most of the time; benefits are starting to show but are uneven.
- Consistent Practices hold up sprint after sprint, including under pressure, and the team owns how it works.
- Adaptive The team uses data and feedback to change how it works, and delivers small, frequent, valuable increments.
- Leading The team improves continuously, shapes the product with its stakeholders, and helps other teams improve.
What it assesses
Each capability is scored from its questions, and each team or process gets its own level per capability. One example question is shown for each.
Purpose and planning
The team knows what it is trying to achieve and why.
“Everyone in the team can explain the goal we are working towards this sprint or iteration.”
2 questions
The backlog is ordered, understood and ready to work from.
“Anyone in the team can explain why the top backlog items come first.”
3 questions
Flow and quality
Work moves through the team in small pieces without piling up.
“We finish work in progress before starting new work.”
3 questions
Work is done properly the first time, to an agreed standard.
“We don't call work done until it meets our definition of done.”
3 questions
Finished work reaches users often and safely.
“How often does work the team has finished reach real users?”
2 questions
Feedback and learning
The people the work is for see it early and shape what happens next.
“We show working results to real users or stakeholders regularly, not just slides or status updates.”
2 questions
The team reflects and actually changes how it works.
“Our retrospectives lead to specific improvements that we follow through on.”
3 questions
Decisions about the way of working are informed by evidence.
“We track a few simple measures of our flow, such as cycle time or throughput, and look at them together.”
2 questions
Team and collaboration
The team decides how to do its work and owns the results.
“The team decides how to do the work, rather than being told how by people outside it.”
3 questions
People can speak up, help each other and work as one team.
“People in the team can admit mistakes or say they don't know without fear of blame.”
3 questions