Assessing Your Own Experience

  • What policies do you have now? What practices? Have you written any of them down yet? When was the last time you revisited them?
  • Do you have company values? What are they? How do you recognize them in your team?
  • Do you have a career ladder? Do you feel it accurately reflects the team today? Does it reflect the team you want to have in the future? If not, can you improve it?
  • What risks are most concerning for your team? For your company? How can you mitigate those risks without burdening your team with unnecessary processes and bureaucracy?

1 John Gall, Systemantics: How Systems Really Work and Especially How They Fail (New York: Quadrangle/The New York Times Book Co, 1975).