Сheat sheet: Team assessment

Here is the summary of my experience on what every team should evade or at least minimize. It's agnostic to methodology or it's absence on the project - just set of common sense advises.

It helps assist the team during on-boarding or check it periodically - for example on retrospective meetings.

Team should avoid:

• Unclear goals
• When the methodology for achieving the goal has not been agreed upon.
• Absence of task priorities.
• Inability to tell justified "No" to extra load.
• A large number of tasks that require high concentration.
• The prospects of the tasks aren't visible (when the ultimate goals of the task are unclean).
• Lack of motivation.
• Noise in the working space.
• Insufficient coordination between the colleagues.
• Insufficient delegation of work.
• Insufficiently organized storage of information (and knowledge sharing).
• Too many of meetings.