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We understand our current goals and priorities.
Strongly disagree · Disagree · Neutral · Agree · Strongly agree
Agile Team HealthUnderstand. Improve.
Understand. Improve.
Grow together.
Agile team health is about more than how a team feels. It is about how well you collaborate, deliver value and continuously improve.
Consensus turns team feedback and real estimation data into insights you can act on.
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Illustrative example only. Alignment and collaboration are strongest, while sustainability offers the clearest opportunity for team discussion.
The 6 dimensions of team health
A practical conversation model for the areas that have the biggest impact on team effectiveness.
Alignment
Clear goals, shared purpose and understanding of success.
Collaboration
Open communication, psychological safety and constructive debate.
Clarity
Clear stories, defined expectations and shared understanding before work begins.
Predictability
Reliable planning, credible estimates and delivery you can count on.
Sustainability
A sustainable pace, manageable work and healthy ways of working.
Improvement
Reflect, learn and make changes that lead to better outcomes.
Consensus currently reports its facilitated health checks across five product areas: Goals & Alignment, Team Collaboration, Delivery Confidence, Planning Confidence and Technical Health.
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Good · improvingTeam Health Score
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Example trend with normal variation across completed team health checks.
Data that drives action
See trends. Spot issues.
Take action.
Track your team’s health over time and identify what needs attention before it impacts delivery.
- Combine team feedback with estimation behaviours
- Spot trends and recurring issues early
- Get coaching insights and practical recommendations
- Measure the impact of your actions
Team feedback and collaboration signals
Consensus brings facilitated feedback and team-level planning patterns together to support a better conversation.
Team feedback
Live health-check responses can surface shared concerns and areas where the team perceives improvement or decline.
- Health-check responses
- Team sentiment
- Shared concerns
- Perceived improvement or decline
Observed collaboration signals
Estimation spread, time to agreement and changes in consensus can add context to the team’s own feedback.
- Estimation spread
- Time to agreement
- Participation patterns
- Recurring disagreement
- Changes in consensus over time
These signals are prompts for team discussion, not individual performance scores or diagnoses.
How to assess Agile team health
A useful assessment ends with a focused conversation and a practical next step.
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Gather team feedback
Ask team members to reflect on the areas that affect how they work together.
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Review team-level signals
Look at trends in collaboration, estimation and delivery behaviour.
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Discuss the results
Use the findings to guide an open team conversation rather than grade the team.
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Agree one improvement action
Choose a focused action, assign ownership and review whether it made a difference.
Example Agile team health questions
Use short, discussable statements and a consistent agreement scale. These examples are a preview, not an interactive assessment.
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Everyone can contribute openly to team discussions.
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Our backlog items are clear enough to estimate confidently.
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We challenge ideas without making disagreement personal.
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Our workload is sustainable.
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We follow through on improvement actions.
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Planning poker gives teams a practical way to surface assumptions and build shared understanding.
Frequently asked questions
Practical answers about health checks, team-level insights and how Consensus approaches improvement.
Agile team health describes how effectively a team aligns, collaborates, plans, delivers and improves together. It is best explored through team conversation and trends, not reduced to a single permanent score.
How healthy is your team?
Run a quick assessment to identify your team’s strengths and improvement priorities.