The DISC (Dominance, Influence, Steadiness and Compliance) behaviour model has been around for a long time but I am thinking of combining it with creating teams in Agile to get a better mix of people at the start of a project. Often they are thrown together and there can be clashes and dysfunctional behaviour but this might help us to avoid some obvious mistakes e.g. too many leaders or no leaders and over time to develop a feel for what the best mixture of personality styles for a particular team is.
There are limitations to this approach but if it improves new teams by a slight amount I think it is worth it.
I would provide my own DISC report to the team so they had an idea of strengths, weaknesses etc and they could do the same thing. Otherwise we spend months working it out. It might be an additional expense at the start of a project but the benefit might outweigh the cost by a magnitude.
My other idea is to have people do this as part of the appraisal process, if they want to, to support any career changes or ideas they want to present to their boss.
