Team Maturity Matrix-Sample evaluation No
Aspect
Observations
Level 1
Level 2
Level 3
Level 4
Level 5
1
Participation
3 out of 5 people meet regularly. 1 chronic absentee
50% of members only participate or attend meetings
75% of members attend meetings and particpate in discussions
100% of members attend meetings and partipate in activities
100% attendance though Participation is voluntary and not mandated.
Voluntary partipation and 100% attendance though activities are outside office hours.
2
Identity
Team's name is " Xenon" there is a team charter but not signed off by CEO.
Team has no identity apart from the list of members and their roles
Team has a name and some common identity for its people.
Team has a charter which states its goals and objectives.
Team has a charter and its objective is aligned with the orgnisation's purpose.
Team has a charter which is signed by every member and is signed off by theCEO.
3
working style
in the meeting observed, people discussed with facts but stuck to their positions. Resolution came from a senior person and accepted more out of respect.
Individuals argue out their positions and want the group to conform to their ideas..
Individuals group into functional background and weigh from the functional point of view
individuals discuss on issues but lack consensus on decisions
When the team discusses issues are discussed from team point of view and decisions are taken by the management
The team is one entity when it comes to decsisions and takes up implementation wherever possible.
4
Responsibility
Team members do not take even minimum responsibilities
Team members do what is told to them
Team members have specific roles and responsibilities but informal
Tem charter has got the roles and responsibilities defined and people go according to it.
Team members have joint responsibilities and back up others when they are unable to work.
5
Authority
No one has any authority.
Tem leader has all authority
Some members in the team wield authority but in a subtle way.
Authorities are spelt out to all and every member has some amount of authority
Leadership also changes and so authority gets distributed.
6
Communication
Team charter is clear on roles and responsibilities. People however were not very much foillowiing it. Some were not aware of it. As already told, one senior person is defacto controlling the discussion and others were not asserting themselves. Communication is through a group created in intranet and every Monday there is an update.
Only Minutes of meeting
Communication in case of escalation of issues.
Routine communication exists between members.
Communication is both formal and informal and of high frequency
Channels of communication change as per the need of the hour and the response is same.
7
Empathy
When asked, people said that they realloy do not contact each other for help. The chronic absentee said that no one contacted him.
People come together only for tasks
People enquire about each other when work is affected
Team members have a genuine affection and concern for each other
Team members care for each other and go out of the way to solove the paretner's problems
Team members standby each other at all times.
8
Capabilities
Team has not been able to tap the conmpetences of individuals as the attendance is less.
Below the sum total of competences of members
equal to the total competences of members
Competences of members have improved while working as a team
Team has produced additional competences as demanded by the challenges
Team identified new competences required and improved upon them on its own.
9
Innovation
No one said anything of this kind
Does not exist
Some flashes of innovation
Innovation limited to the area of expertise of the members
Innovation is deployable organisatiowide
Team sets a new practice
Agility
Team is quire agile as they have adjusted their ways of working very well to the changes in shifts of members.
Team is not flexible and it goes in the same path
Time wise the team is agile.
Team is able to simplfy the ways of working
Team saves time and refines the processes as it proceeds
Team is constantly looking for improvising the solutions.
10
Score (median) Target
2.5 4