Team Sentiment

Team sentiment practices track the mood of a team and provide a mechanism for team members to rapidly feed back, either publicly or anonymously, when their mood has changed. Team sentiment practices enable problems to be identified, radiated, and addressed early. They enable the team to quickly discuss where one or more team members are suddenly troubled by the direction their work is going in and can also provide an information radiator to assess the overall team's health and feeling.

One popular approach to introduce a team sentiment information radiator is mood marbles. To use this, you will need a number of containers to hold enough marbles so there is one for each team member participating. When we say containers, it can be a simple transparent box (in Red Hat, we love containers and OpenShift is all about containers, so we've even found a way to get containers to track our feelings!) or even just a drawing of a container on large flip-chart paper....