A new Slop University brochure introduces the Trajectory Analytics Group's five-level Stand-up Maturity Model, and the flexible-work eligibility rule the University has quietly built on top of it.
A five-level model from the Trajectory Analytics Group now decides which teams keep their flexible-work arrangements on standing terms.
A stand-up meeting has always been easy to run badly and hard to score. The Trajectory Analytics Group’s answer, unveiled today in a new University brochure, is a five-level model that rates a team’s daily circle from Ad Hoc through to Self-Sustaining, with a Capability Sprints eligibility rule now built on top of the result. The School regards the model as one of the more legible instruments to come out of its anticipatory-capability agenda.
The model scores a team against five named levels, assigning an attained level from a short observed checklist: whether blockers are named before they bite, whether the circle keeps its own time, whether it runs without a nominated convenor in the room. Level 4, Anticipatory, is the level Capability Sprints already uses to decide which teams move onto standing flexible-work terms; teams below it stay on the renewable trial the rest of the University has grown used to.
A model like this doesn’t end a conversation about what a good stand-up looks like. If anything, it starts a better one.
— Lindiwe Achterberg, Lecturer, School of Emergent Priorities
Associate Professor Casimir Beng, Lead of the Adaptive Metrics Lab, said the model sits comfortably beside the Lab’s own calibration work, calling it “a nice reminder that the readiness question shows up everywhere we look, not just where we expected it.”
The full brochure is available from the University’s research repository under an open licence, doi:10.5555/slop.ej4jvk.