Team Maturity Matrix
Team Maturity Matrix
10 Agility Team is not Time wise the Team is able to Team saves Team is
flexible and it team is agile. simplify the time and constantly
goes in the ways of refines the looking for
same path working processes as it improvising the
proceeds solutions.
Method of evaluation:
1. Observe the team as it works and observe the members during the meetings.
2. Consider the aspect one by one and mark the band which describes the status of the
team closest.
3. The evaluation is all about the people and the team process and no attempt is made to
judge the results of the team work. This is entirely a different subject.
4. Score all the aspects and consider the median score. (Median is the half way score
when you write the scores in the ascending order.)
5. This describes the current maturity of the team.
6. When the team score on maturity is less than 3, the team can be entrusted with small
improvement projects or decisions which are non-critical but cannot be expected to
come up with major breakthroughs.
7. When the team maturity score is 3 or more than 3, the team can really be entrusted
with important decisions.
8. For organizations who are doing six sigma GB projects, this is a good tool as many
(literature puts the figure as 70%) projects are getting abandoned or completed with
less than expected results as the team is not cohesive.
9. For other oganisations which have self directed teams, Quality circles or CFTs, do this
assessment once a year and find out how many teams are in level 3.
10. This will trigger the efforts for team building and putting the basic processes in place
before expecting results.
11. For HR departments and trainers, this tool provides an opportunity to set targets on
team functioning and validate their approaches.
12. In Malcolm Baldrige award, the tool will be relevant for category 5 Item 5.1 a and
5.1 c. Results can be presented in category 7.4. (Ref:MBNQA 2008)