The only "assessment" of the team is a yearly HR survey that never appears in retrospectives. What should the Scrum Master / Team Coach use instead?
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Short Explanation
A yearly HR survey that never hits the retro is a fire-inspection sticker from last winter. Team health and delivery need a frequent look the team actually uses. Put the evidence in inspect-and-adapt, not a drawer.
Full Explanation
When the only "assessment" of a team is a yearly HR survey that never appears in retrospectives, the Scrum Master / Team Coach should use frequent inspect-and-adapt of team health and delivery so assessment feeds improvement now, not an unused annual form. Annual surveys can inform HR themes, but they are too slow and too detached to steer iteration and PI improvement for civic delivery teams. Keeping the annual survey as the sole score skips team-level inspect and adapt and leaves impediments idle. Filing the survey with HR and treating delivery metrics as unrelated splits health from delivery as if they were different worlds. Waiting for next year's survey before changing anything freezes learning for twelve months while residents experience the same pain. Exam caveat: SASM expects ongoing assessment that informs improvement; yearly HR forms alone are not Agile team performance practice. Operational check: establish a recurring team health and delivery review inside retrospectives or Coach Sync, pick a few actionable measures, act on at least one impediment per cycle, and optionally feed themes to HR without waiting a year to improve. Verify that assessment conversations produce backlog or working-agreement changes, not only archived survey PDFs, and sample whether the team can name what improved since the last check.