Notion Template: Software Development Health Check

The goal of this product

With this Notion template, you can check how your development team is doing. It targets focus, stress levels, mental health, teamwork and a lot more. There are three categories of questions you will go through, which are Growth, Processes and Environment. In the end, you should have a good overview of how good your team processes are defined. The goal is to find out what already works great, what might be missing and what you might be able to improve on.

Why I made this product

Hi, I'm Tobias, founder of Ice Bear Labs. I'm a freelance developer with over ten years of professional experience. I have worked with large development teams containing project managers, product owners, designers, developers etc. In a lot of those projects, the business processes were defined quite detailed.

What was often missing, was how the developing process should be handled, where information should be saved and how the team should work, on a day to day basis. Working with different teams you could always find things that did not go great in those categories.

This product is my attempt to give you a tool to find those problems and fix them for your team.

Who is this product for?

This product is for everyone that wants to check how their development team is doing and what could be improved. That can be a concerned project manager, a product owner or a development team lead. Anyone with the power to change a process and improve things for the developers is welcome to try the template.

What do you get?

The template includes

An introduction to the topic of mental / stress awareness overall
An overview over the "Joel Test" as a development quality test
The actual "3 Parts Checklist", which is the Software Development Health Check. It's split into the aforementioned three categories Growth, Processes and Environment
A guide on what to do after doing the test with your team
Links to advanced resources with which you can work further