Is your organization creating outputs or driving outcomes?
Start the AssessmentUse this assessment tool to determine your product operating model maturity score. Designed for transformation and organizational leaders, this assessment will help you identify where your organization stands on the journey from project-focused thinking to a mature product operating model. The assessment provides:
- Clear insights across six essential business pillars
- Identification of your current organizational strengths
- Targeted opportunities for operational improvement
- Practical steps toward greater outcome alignment
Get Actionable Guidance for Your Results
When you complete the assessment, we’ll email you The Field Guide to Advancing Your Product Operating Model: Using Your Maturity Assessment Results. This essential guide explains your personalized scores in detail, giving you actionable steps for progressing your transformation across all six pillars.
Start the assessmentThe six pillars of the product operating model
Our assessment evaluates your organization across six interconnected pillars that form a complete product operating model. Each pillar represents a critical capability that drives outcome-based performance:
Organisation
Drive accountable ownership by building and funding a matrix organization that includes the product.
Objectifs
Create actionable, team-level objectives that are completed as a team and central to the decision-making process.
Planification
Build roadmaps that focus on customer needs with continuous iteration through complex interdependencies.
Flow
Remove waste and blockers by standardizing metrics and tracking outcomes, not just activities.
Gouvernance
Act in real time by bringing information to decision makers exactly when needed.
Data Flow
Reduce manual and duplicate data entry and ensure traceability from strategy to value delivery.
Pillar 1
Organisation
The Organization pillar forms the foundation of your product operating model. Without these elements in place, implementing the remaining pillars will be challenging. We’ll assess your current maturity across three key dimensions:
Teams and Value Streams
How are your teams structured and funded?
This question evaluates your progression from temporary project teams to fully funded, persistent product teams aligned to value streams.
Product Management Competency
Do you have established product management capabilities?
This question measures the development of your product management function from non-existent to strategic enabler of business outcomes.
Accountable Ownership
Do your teams take ownership of outcomes?
This question examines whether your teams merely complete tasks or fully own the achievement of business results.
Your responses will help determine where you stand on the maturity scale and identify specific opportunities to strengthen your organizational foundation.
Pillar 2
Objectifs
The Objectives pillar evaluates how well your organization connects strategy to execution through clearly defined, measurable goals. We’ll assess your current maturity across three key dimensions:
Strategy to Work Linkage
How effectively does your organization connect strategic objectives to the actual work being performed?
This question examines whether teams understand how their efforts support broader enterprise goals and if they can adjust their activities to drive strategic priorities.
Outcome-Based OKRs
Are your objectives focused on outcomes rather than activities?
This question evaluates whether your organization has shifted from defining success as completing tasks to achieving measurable business results that create real value.
Objectives Cascade and Alignment
How well do objectives flow from enterprise strategy to team-level execution?
This question measures how effectively your organization translates high-level goals into specific, aligned objectives that teams can own and deliver against.
Your responses will help identify gaps in your goal-setting framework and highlight opportunities to create clearer connections between strategy and execution.
Pillar 3
Planification
The Planning pillar examines how your organization approaches roadmapping, prioritization, and coordination across teams. We’ll assess your current maturity across three key dimensions:
Planning Cadence and Adaptability
How frequently and flexibly does your organization plan?
This question evaluates your progression from rigid annual planning cycles to dynamic, responsive planning that adapts to changing conditions and new information.
Multi-Level Planning Integration
How well are your planning activities connected across different organizational levels?
This question measures whether strategic, cross-team, and team-level planning processes are isolated or integrated to create alignment and manage dependencies effectively.
Customer-Centric Planning
To what extent do customer needs drive your planning decisions?
This question examines whether your planning focuses primarily on internal considerations or is guided by customer value and outcomes.
Your responses will help identify opportunities to make your planning processes more responsive, connected, and customer-oriented to deliver better business outcomes.
Pillar 4
Flow
The Flow pillar evaluates how work moves from idea to outcome across your organization. We’ll assess your current maturity across three key dimensions:
Flow Measurement
How effectively does your organization measure and use delivery metrics?
This question examines whether you have visibility into how work progresses and if you’re using metrics like cycle time, throughput, and work in progress to make data-driven decisions.
Flow Efficiency and Waste Reduction
How systematically does your organization identify and eliminate bottlenecks?
This question evaluates your approach to reducing delays, minimizing waiting time, and optimizing the efficiency of your delivery processes.
Enterprise-wide Value Stream-Oriented Delivery System
To what extent is your delivery organized around value streams?
This question measures how well your organization has defined end-to-end value streams and aligned teams, practices, and governance to optimize flow across the entire delivery system.
Your responses will help identify opportunities to improve delivery speed, predictability, and efficiency while reducing waste and delays that impact business outcomes.
Pillar 5
Gouvernance
The Governance pillar examines how effectively your organization brings information to decision-makers and takes action. We’ll assess your current maturity across three key dimensions:
Integrated Decision Support
How well does your organization consolidate and present information for decision-making?
This question evaluates whether your governance systems provide a unified view of objectives, financials, roadmaps, and other critical data to support informed decisions.
Role-Based Governance
To what extent is governance information tailored to specific roles?
This question measures how well your governance systems deliver relevant, contextualized information to different stakeholders based on their responsibilities and needs.
AI-Driven Governance
How does your organization leverage AI to enhance governance?
This question examines your progression from manual governance processes to AI-augmented and potentially AI-driven governance that can independently monitor, analyze, and take action.
Your responses will help identify opportunities to make your governance more effective, efficient, and responsive to changing conditions while supporting better business decisions.
Pillar 6
Connecting the Pillars: Data Flow
The Integrated and Automated Data Flow connects all pillars of your product operating model. We’ll assess your current maturity across three key dimensions:
Tool Integration Across the Value Stream
How well are your tools connected throughout the product development process?
This question evaluates the level of integration between your systems—from strategic planning to delivery—and whether information flows seamlessly across functional boundaries.
Automation and Data Consistency
How automated are your workflows and how consistent is your data?
This question measures the extent to which you’ve eliminated manual data entry and established a reliable, single source of truth across your organization.
Readiness for AI Enablement
How prepared is your data ecosystem for AI capabilities?
This question examines whether your organization has the integrated data foundation necessary to support AI-driven insights, predictions, and autonomous actions.
Your responses will help identify opportunities to create a more connected technology ecosystem that reduces manual effort, improves data quality, and enables advanced AI capabilities to drive better business outcomes.
Your answers are in.
Last step: See your results!
See exactly where to focus – and start closing the gaps.
Your scores across the six pillars show where your operating model is strong, where it needs work, and where there’s room to grow.
Your personalized scores include:
- Your overall maturity mode
- Scores across all six pillars
- Sub-dimension breakdowns for each pillar (18 total)
- Specific next steps based on where you are today
To save a copy of your personalized scores, be sure to bookmark your online results page.
In your inbox, you’ll get a copy of The Field Guide to Advancing Your Product Operating Model: Using Your Maturity Assessment Results. This essential guide explains your scores in detail, giving you actionable steps for progressing your transformation across all six pillars.