Scrum@Scale’s Scaling Heatmap Assessment

Discover how the Scaling Heatmap assessment can help you improve your organization

When launching a transformation initiative in a company, it is normally difficult to find a suitable approach that is flexible enough to fit for a wide range of situations.

Scrum@Scale, the scaling method created by Jeff Sutherland, introduces the Scaling Heatmap, a multi-dimensional analysis. It allows to identify the strengths and weaknesses of an organization, and to visualize the focus areas that require specific attention for the transformation effort to be successful.

Understand the context

The first step is to perform an exercise to understand more about the current circumstances of the organization. While focusing on the big picture, we try to become familiar with both tangible and less tangible aspects. What is the culture of the company like? What does the organization prioritize when creating new solutions? Are there legacy systems?

To achieve this, Scrum@Scale proposes addressing the following 7 questions, and answering them in a horizontal scale, where the two extremes are the elements in brackets below:

• How important is speed of delivery? [Not important ↔ Very important]