5 min Health-Check
Building your product or service requires a step-change in scale and risk.
Have you done everything to ensure you have commercial certainty?
Are you solving the right problem?
☐ I have a clear picture of the context in which this problem exists, along with clarity of our organisational goals within that context.
☐ I can explain how solving this problem uniquely supports the broader strategy.
☐ I have a clear decision making model to help teams make strategic trade offs.
☐ I have clear metrics (lagging) that will indicate success.
☐ I have a business case or equivalent which will ensure resources to solve this problem.
☐ I have an executive sponsor or similar to ensure there is a voice at senior leadership.
Is your solution right?
☐ I have a clear product / service vision.
☐ I can discuss the supporting business model at length.
☐ I can clearly articulate why the proposed solution is better than other potential options.
☐ I have an extensive list of the assumptions that must be true, in order for this vision to work.
☐ We have tested the greatest risks in the product / service, and can discuss the behavioural evidence.
☐ I have socialised the vision beyond the intended delivery team.
☐ I have clear metrics (leading) that will indicate success.
☐ I have an adoption strategy for this initiative.
Can’t tick them all?
You should be thinking about a Product Blueprint.
Do you have an appropriate approach?
☐ We have agreed on an approach for delivering this solution in the taking into consideration our goals, and context?
☐ We have identified costs to an appropriate accuracy.
☐ We understand the impact on stakeholders directly and indirectly.
☐ We have a detailed list of risks & dependencies relating to delivery / implementation. (these are different from product risks.)
☐ We have access to all the required capabilities.
☐ We have a design system to support delivery.
☐ We have an accessible artefact which communicates all of the decisions up to this point.
☐ We have we identified a team that can solve this problem together.
☐ We have explicitly made the call to continue, rather than kill, or pivot.
Can’t tick them all?
You should be thinking about Product Delivery.
Can’t tick them all?
You should be thinking about Product Strategy.