40 Ways to Assess Your Tech Team

For CTOs Trying to Better Understand the Capabilities of their Teams

This is a quick brain dump of tactics to evaluate your Engineering Teams.

• 9-box the team

• Apply engineering metrics and track over time

• Have the team build an accomplishments list

• Interview everyone on the team

• Run a performance review process

• Speak with adjacent stakeholders

• Review the teams LinkedIn profiles

• Have people present on various topics

• Run a skills assessment

• Look at prior project post-mortems

• Have the team do self-assessments

• Examine prior performance reviews

• Run a 360 feedback

• Run peer reviews

• Establish a goal tracking system

• Examine KPI performance

• Conduct feedback sessions

• Observe daily stand-ups

• Run a survey

• Audit JIRA (scary, I know)

• Talk to customers about the team

• Create a scorecard on various factors

• Force rank

• Run group discussions & debates

• Ask staff to maintain a work log

• Examine employee NPS

• Do a version of mystery shop

• Establish a maturity model and see where the team lands

• Run a Myers-Briggs type test

• Bring in an outside evaluator

• Assess delivery vs. the roadmap

• Track task completion numbers

• Do an offsite team building exercise

• Give well defined short-term projects to the team and evaluate

• Run an ROI analysis of the team

• Evaluate team against company values

• Run the team through training & testing and examine the results

• Run code analysis software

• Compare the team against a career ladder

• Have the team develop a SWOT analysis

• Observe the team in action and take notes about their behavior

• Apply a tool like Linear B

• Have the team send you weekly or bi-weekly work summaries (courtesy of https://substack.com/@matjmn)