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Team Design Diagnostic

A focused, interactive 20-question diagnostic that captures team context, scores five core design domains, and produces immediate prioritized redesign suggestions you can act on.

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Team Design Diagnostic

Use this short diagnostic to quickly assess the health of a team's design across ownership, boundaries, decisions, skills, and interaction modes. It typically takes 6–10 minutes. Answer honestly: lower scores identify where redesign work will have the biggest impact. When you submit, your responses are saved and a simple scoring summary and recommended next steps are provided.

Team or unit name

Enter the team name or identifier.

Your name / role

Who is completing this assessment?

Date

YYYY-MM-DD (optional)

The team has a clear, shared purpose that everyone understands.

1 = strongly disagree, 5 = strongly agree

1.0 10.0

Individual accountabilities (who owns what) are explicit and accepted.

Rate how well ownership is defined.

1.0 10.0

The team knows what success looks like and how it will be measured.

Clarity of success measures.

1.0 10.0

The team can say no or push back when requests fall outside its scope.

Ability to protect team focus.

1.0 10.0

Team boundaries and handoffs with other teams are clearly defined.

Clarity of boundaries and handoff points.

1.0 10.0

Dependencies on other teams are known and managed proactively.

How well dependencies are tracked and mitigated.

1.0 10.0

Work is routed to the right team rather than being reassigned repeatedly.

Incidence of misrouted work.

1.0 10.0

The team has appropriate autonomy for routine decisions even when other groups are affected.

Degree of operational autonomy.

1.0 10.0

Decision rights are clear: people know who decides what and at what level.

Clarity of decision rights.

1.0 10.0

Decisions that affect delivery are made quickly enough to keep work flowing.

Decision speed relative to team needs.

1.0 10.0

Escalation paths are known and used when decisions are blocked.

Effectiveness of escalation.

1.0 10.0

The team regularly reviews decisions and adapts rules or roles when they cause delays.

Learning from decision outcomes.

1.0 10.0

The team collectively has the technical and domain skills required to deliver its core outcomes.

Skill fit for purpose.

1.0 10.0

Workload is balanced and not concentrated on just a few people.

Distribution of work and bottlenecks.

1.0 10.0

There are clear plans for developing missing skills or filling gaps.

Proactiveness in addressing skill gaps.

1.0 10.0

The team has the right mix of permanent and flexible capacity for its work.

Appropriateness of staffing model.

1.0 10.0

Communication patterns (meetings, channels, cadences) support effective coordination without overload.

Quality and efficiency of communication.

1.0 10.0

Handovers include the right information and are consistently performed.

Handoff quality.

1.0 10.0

The team and stakeholders have shared norms for when to use synchronous vs asynchronous communication.

Clarity of interaction modes.

1.0 10.0

Feedback flows openly so problems are surfaced before they become crises.

Effectiveness of feedback loops.

1.0 10.0

Which of these issues apply? (check all that apply)

Select issues that feel most relevant.

Unclear purpose or goals

Overlapping roles / duplicated work

Slow or unclear decision-making

Unmanaged dependencies with other teams

Skill shortages or single-person dependencies

Poor handovers and information loss

Meeting or communication overload

Other (use notes box below)

Brief notes or specific examples (optional)

Capture a quick example or context to help prioritize fixes.

Would you like this diagnostic to suggest prioritized redesign actions?

If yes, simple prioritized next steps will be shown after submission.

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