Is your team buzzing?

Before your team's velocity drops, energy fades. Here’s how to spot it.

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We’ve got plenty of ways to measure team performance. DORA metrics, SPACE framework, DX-Core 4. They all serve a purpose even if they are not perfect.

But none of them capture the one thing you feel instinctively.. the thing you sense the moment you step into a team meeting:

Energy

Are people excited to be there and discuss the thing, debug this tricky issue together, plan for the next week, or reflect on the previous one?

Or is the team on the call out of necessity? Just because they have to..

The 3 types of energy

I separate energy in three directions:

• Product energy - a genuine enthusiasm for the thing we’re building

• Team energy -…