End-to-end design of your Product Operating Model.
When you're standing up an Agile Product Operating Model from scratch — or fixing one that drifted — this is the full-arc engagement. Taxonomy, funding, governance, flow, A.I. substrate. Designed once, run for years.
Half-transformations produce half-results.
Most transformations stand up ARTs, declare victory, and leave the operating model half-designed. That's the model that drifts back inside 18 months. Real transformation requires the whole arc — and the whole arc is more than slide-deck consulting.
L1 through L5, not just teams
Most engagements stop at the team layer. We design every altitude — Teams, Product, Product Groups, Product Line, Enterprise — so the operating model holds at portfolio scale.
APOM + AVDS in the same engagement
Structure and flow get designed together. The org chart and how value moves through it are one design choice, not two phases.
A.I. as substrate from day one
A.I. is woven into the operating model — across flow, decisions, work experience, cost-to-serve — not bolted on as a feature roadmap later.
The full operating model. Designed, stood up, and handed off.
Every deliverable is calibrated to your starting state — pre-launch, mid-flight, or sustainment. Same arc, different shape.
- Product taxonomy design (L1–L5). Explicit altitudes, decision rights, and accountability at each level — not relabeled boxes on a slide.
- Lean Portfolio Management stand-up. Strategic themes, guardrails, funding by outcome, capacity allocation. The funding architecture the rest of the model runs on.
- ART and team topology design. Value-stream-aligned ARTs, long-lived cross-functional teams, dependency-light boundaries.
- Governance and cadence design. PI Planning, portfolio reviews, operating-model retros — the rhythms that hold the system together.
- A.I. substrate integration plan. How A.I. shows up across the eight impact dimensions — flow, decisions, cost-to-serve, work experience.
- AMO + LACE staffing and capability. Permanent capabilities built and trained inside your org so the model survives leadership turnover.
Four moves, calibrated to your stage.
Calibrated assessment
Flow metrics, taxonomy maturity, leader behaviors, system-of-work alignment. A clear-eyed read of where you actually are.
Operating-model design
L1–L5 taxonomy, funding architecture, cadences, role design, A.I. substrate plan — approved before launch.
Embedded execution
Pilot ARTs, leader cohorts, training waves. Embedded coaching so the new way is practiced, not announced.
Hand it off and leave
Internal LACE, AMO, coaching cadre — staffed and trained by us, owned by you. Self-reliance is the goal.
Ready to design the full operating model?
30-minute discovery call. We'll map your current state and the gap to the operating model you're building toward.