Product Team Essentials & Flow

Capability Template Details

Product Team Essentials & Flow

This agile assessment enables teams, focused on product delivery, to assess, improve, and measure practices and behaviors that drive innovation, maximize business impact, and create an exceptional customer experience.

Ideal For

Product teams with strong foundational Agile practices, focused on optimizing flow, accelerating value delivery, and maximizing customer impact.

References

Works of thought leaders that influenced the Growth Criteria, assigned Stage, and associated Outcomes.

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Capabilities by Dimension

20 total capabilities

Product

• Business Outcome Alignment
• Product Vision
• Priority Clarity
• Outcome-Based Roadmap
• Customer Access
• Stakeholder Access
• Product Data Access
• Experimentation

Culture

• Product Team
• Product Team Empowerment
• Product Team Collaboration
• Product Team Safety

Engineering

• Release Frequency
• Instrumentation
• Technical Debt Management
• Automation & Tooling

Process

• Visualize Work
• Work-In-Progress Management
• Dependency Management
• Impediment Removal

Capability Growth Criteria Example

Priority Clarity

To what extent are your team's priorities clear, so that it's obvious what matters most and work can flow without hesitation?

Starting (0)

The team lacks alignment on priorities, resulting in work being chosen reactively based on urgency, noise, or the loudest voice

Developing (1)

The team is aligned on top priorities, and all members can consistently describe what matters most

Emerging (2)

The team has a single, visible source of truth (e.g., roadmap, goals, backlog) that informs planning and guides decision-making across the team

Adapting (3)

The team confidently focuses on what matters most, saying "no" to distractions, and ensuring that backlog items and daily tasks reflect stated priorities

Optimizing (4)

Priorities are aligned and transparent; teams consistently deliver value smoothly and without friction

 
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