The Product Operating Model Reality Check
Find out if your organisation actually runs on the
Product Operating Model.
10 behavioural questions.
10 minutes.
1 honest scorecard.
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Most organisations that say they have adopted the product operating model have renamed the roles: Product Manager instead of Business Analyst, trio instead of team, quarterly OKRs instead of a roadmap review.
Few have changed what actually happens underneath. Conway’s Law does not read job titles. It keeps producing the old organisation’s structure, meetings, and release train, whatever the new organisational chart says.
Ten minutes and ten honest answers tell you which one you actually have.
Do you recognize this?
- A release still needs a meeting.
- Coaching is a status update with a nicer name.
- The roadmap never actually moves.
- A simple question about your own product needs a ticket.
Know Where You Actually Stand!
- Find out which pillar, People, Process, or Product & architecture, still runs on the old structure.
- Score yourself honestly in about ten minutes. No consultant, no workshop, no sales call.
- Walk away with a number you can defend, not a status update you hope holds up.
What's Inside the Reality Check
- People (3 questions): the Meeting Test, the Customer Contact Test, and the Coaching Test. Who actually has to be in the room to ship, who talks to real customers, and whether coaching is a weekly habit or a title.
- Process (3 questions): the Roadmap Test, the Outcome Test, and the Discovery Test. Whether the roadmap ever bends to reality, whether teams are accountable for outcomes or just output, and whether discovery happens every week or only before a big bet.
- Product & architecture (4 questions): the Data Test, the Topology Test, the Ownership Test, and the Release Test. Whether teams can get the data, the dependencies, the ownership, and the release schedule they need without routing through someone else first.
Your consultant
With 20 years of experience in digital product development and expertise in architecture, business analysis, and agile coaching, I bring fresh energy to teams. My passion lies in guiding the entire product development process, from strategy and vision to business acceptance.
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