Run a product team health check and build an improvement plan
Discovery
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Updated 3/27/2026
Description
Your team ships features but something feels off — retrospectives are stale, morale is dipping, and cross-functional collaboration is getting harder. This runs a structured health check across 8 dimensions of product team effectiveness and generates a targeted improvement plan.
Example Usage
Run a product team health check for {{team_name}} and build an improvement plan for the next quarter.
## Context
- Team name: {{team_name}}
- Product area: {{product_area}}
- Team composition: {{team_composition}} (e.g., 1 PM, 1 designer, 4 engineers, 1 QA)
- Team tenure: {{average_tenure}} (how long has this team been together?)
- Current team challenges: {{current_challenges}}
- Last retrospective themes: {{retro_themes}}
## Step 1: Health Check Assessment
Rate each dimension from 1 (critical) to 5 (excellent):
### Product & Strategy
1. **Mission clarity**: Does every team member know what the team exists to achieve?
2. **Outcome focus**: Does the team measure success by customer outcomes or feature output?
3. **Customer connection**: How often does the team interact with real customers?
### Process & Delivery
4. **Shipping cadence**: Does the team ship to production at least weekly?
5. **Discovery balance**: What % of time is spent on discovery vs. delivery?
6. **Decision speed**: How long do product decisions take from proposal to commitment?
### Collaboration & Culture
7. **Psychological safety**: Can team members disagree openly without consequences?
8. **Cross-functional respect**: Do PM, design, and engineering have equal voice in decisions?
9. **Dependency management**: Is the team blocked by other teams more than 20% of the time?
### Growth & Sustainability
10. **Learning culture**: Does the team run experiments and share learnings regularly?
11. **Technical health**: Is the team spendingCustomize This Prompt
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