Companion format F4 · Quadrants: Know Thyself

The Team Map

One framework, everybody on it, one grid. What a team can see is limited by where its people are standing.

Teams do not fail because the individuals are wrong. They fail because everybody is standing in roughly the same place, so the same things are obvious to all of them and the same things are invisible to all of them. A group of four people who all check carefully will produce careful, slow work and will not notice that it is slow. A group who all move fast will not notice the errors.

This page plots a team on one grid. It shows who sits where, which corners are crowded, which are empty, and how wide the spread is on each dimension. An empty corner is not a gap to hire for. It is a description of what nobody in the room is positioned to raise.

Before you run this

Build the map

Add one row per person. Names stay in this browser tab and are never sent anywhere.