Product Value Stream based Operating Models: Where are you on the journey?

Companies that are product value stream aligned  outperform their peers by 4x.  Organising by value stream enables companies to achieve faster delivery, higher quality, and higher customer satisfaction through: 

• Optimising the customer journey and client experience. 
• Teams having deep knowledge of the customer, product and systems. 
• Organising teams to minimise handoffs and dependencies on others. 
• Full accountability for quality and resilience. 
• Combining operations and change, to operate E2E. 
• Having all the skills in the team to deliver E2E solutions / outcomes.

When working with leaders to determine where they are on their journey to being product and E2E Value Stream aligned, we have found the below diagram useful to gauge where they are on their operating model journey:

If you are interested in reading more on the topic of product and product value stream operating models:

• How Organisations That Pivot to Product Outperform Their Peers By 4x
• Why Shift to Product?
• Where are you on your pivot to product journey? 
• Mobilising Your First Value Stream
• The Power of the North Star Product Metric