tl;dr:Leaders at Spotify run health checks as a source of data to support - and not judge - teams. Checks usually follow the following pattern: (1) Ask predefined questions in the areas of tech health, team health, and product health. (2) Run debrief workshops where members of a squad discuss their results and decide on a set of actions. (3) Aggregate results into a multi-team-level visualisation, so that patterns and trends can be observed and addressed. This article discusses how they’re run.