A lot of different disiplines are trying to adopt the "
Agile Manifesto" based methods that originated in software engineering into different areas, such as sales
In software engineering, small teams of 3 to 10 people will work together to make a computer system to achieve something on a short timescale
In large organisations the language and some of the often out of context methods of "Agile" are adopted into a leaden work flow often involving the interlocked goals of many dozens of people
Temperature taking in the original sofware engineering context is probably something like this
http://www.leadingagile.com/2014/05/safety-check/ and it's a measure of how much influence the individual members of the team believe that they have on "the process"
In the typical large organisation that "Agile" has been shoehornned into this question will be asked and the answer will always be "oh yes, I think you can hear me and things will happen." but in large organisations this answer is often given in bad faith. Sorry to be cynical but frankly it's a PITA a useful thing being perverted by wishful thinking project managers