How Effectively Do Your Teams Work Together?
The speed of change organizations face is increasing due to heightened customer expectations, employee needs, and evolving markets. To adapt, organizations must work together effectively. This assessment will help determine how well your teams are currently set up for effective collaboration.
The assessment will yield customized results and recommendations based on your responses and should take no more than 2 minutes to complete.
Please select the option that best describes the current level of collaboration and coordination within your team specifically. (Select one per row)
Please select the option that best describes the current level of collaboration and coordination within your team specifically. (Select one per row)
Please select the option that best describes the accessibility of information across your organization. (Select one)
Results Overview
Organizations can avoid the pitfalls of poor team collaboration when they properly invest in aligned goals, horizontal approaches to planning and tracking work, and open knowledge sharing. Beyond just avoiding negative consequences, effective organizations will experience increased product quality and more positive business outcomes for their employees and customers.
Aligned goals:
Does your organization calibrate expectations and progress against a common understanding of outcomes and progress?
Planning and tracking work:
Does your organization ensure that everyone, from leaders to individual contributors, understands where key projects are today — as well as what’s next?
Knowledge sharing:
Does your organization ensure critical information flows across and between key teams so everyone shares context, and information can be found more easily?
Recommendations
Low effectiveness
Medium effectiveness
High effectivenessYour maturity result: Low effectivenessMedium effectivenessHigh effectiveness
Low Effectiveness
Your score means that you’re at the beginning stage of fostering effective cross-team collaboration.
- It’s challenging to consistently align goals across your key business and technical teams.
- Project tracking is difficult across teams, making it hard to form a common understanding of progress.
- Information is difficult to find, undermining trust and collaboration within and across teams.
Organizations with low effectiveness should start their improvement plans by evaluating how their tools and ways of working support connections between teams and business functions. Organizations with high effectiveness were 42% more likely than organizations with low effectiveness to use many or all of the same tools across product and business teams. Your enterprise should develop a strategy to identify and eliminate redundancies in its portfolio, unify toolsets where possible, and embrace integrated tooling to both eliminate overlap and improve teamwork.
Medium Effectiveness
Your score means your organization has made progress fostering effective team collaboration, but it still has work to do to optimize it.
- Your organization has begun to bring together key business and technical teams around aligned goals.
- Projects are increasingly tracked in ways that enable common understanding of progress on critical project tasks.
- Critical information flows between teams, helping foster trust and collaboration within and across teams.
Organizations with medium effectiveness should reinforce their improvement plans by ensuring that leadership has the visibility and authority to promote connections across teams with defined roles and responsibilities. Leadership plays a critical role in fostering effective collaboration by removing obstacles and supporting employees, creating increased trust and transparency across the organization. That said, improving enterprise visibility requires significant logistical and technical changes, but leaders set the tone for collaboration. With an abundance of tools and data at their fingertips, leaders should work to ensure that their organization shares information at scale to bridge the gaps between business, IT, and development teams.
High Effectiveness
Your score means your organization has made significant progress fostering effective team collaboration and should focus on reinforcing it.
- Your organization has successfully brought together key business and technical teams around aligned goals.
- Projects are tracked in ways that enable a common understanding of progress on critical project tasks.
- Information flows freely between teams, reflecting high degrees of trust and collaboration within and across teams.
Even for organizations that are highly effective, the work is not done. It’s critical that effective orgs reinforce a strong foundation of effectiveness to keep their organizations ready in an era of increasing data and continued visibility challenges. Leaders of highly effective organizations should simultaneously ensure that business and technical team members feel connected to a shared sense of mission or purpose and that they have the tools they need to drive better business and customer outcomes.
Next Steps
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Methodology And Disclaimers
Methodology:
In this study, Forrester conducted an online survey of 670 decision-makers at organizations in the United States, Germany, the United Kingdom, and France to evaluate the state of collaboration across technical and business teams. The study began and was completed in March 2023.
Disclaimers
Although great care has been taken to ensure the accuracy and completeness of this assessment, Atlassian and Forrester are unable to accept any legal responsibility for any actions taken based on the information contained herein.