How do you know if your product team is performing?
This is a tricky question.
But warning signs are:
- Product feels like a black box:
- You’re spending a ton of money on your team
- You’re constantly struggling to get features out
- Features rarely deliver the impact you’re hoping for
As a CEO / product leader how do you respond?
- You diagnose what's holding the product org back
- You solve the root causes of underperformance
- You set the team up for success
➡️ You’ll dramatically improve the returns on your investment in technology
How do you identify these root cause problems?
Start with a product diagnostic:
- Identifies critical problems holding the product org back
- Uncovers quick fixes that can unblock teams
- Highlights capabilities that need building over time
The product audit breaks down overall product success into 12 major drivers across:
- Strategy - Do we know what to build?
- Process - Can we build it?
- People - Have we got the right builders?
You assess each of these drivers on a scale:
- Starting - Very informal. Significant room for improvement.
- Emerging - Some initial foundations laid in some areas.
- Developing - Significant progress made, and more to be done.
- Maturing - Effective product capability in most areas.
- Mastering - Highly effective and mature product capability.
Ideally this isn’t done by a single person, but by a small number of people both within and outside of the product org to give a 360 view.
The result is that you have a clear understanding of where you need to focus to increase overall product org performance and team velocity.
Hustle Badger Product Audit 
