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LEADERSHIP & INFLUENCE

Product Operating Model Maturity

Whether you can move a team from feature delivery to outcome-based product management: clarifying decision rights, reducing order-taking, and improving discovery and prioritization rhythms.

← All 16 dimensions in the competency framework

What strong evidence looks like

  • A specific change to how a team planned or made decisions
  • Evidence it reduced roadmap theater or order-taking, not just added a new ritual

What weak evidence looks like

  • Describes adopting a framework or ritual with no evidence it changed how decisions actually got made
  • Process description with no example of a decision that would not have happened before

A real follow-up question

What decision did your team make differently after this change that they couldn't have made before?

Questions like this follow directly from what you just said, not from a fixed script -- they exist to find out whether an answer holds up, not to check a box.

See where you actually stand on this

A self-assessment only goes so far. The adaptive interview tests exactly this kind of evidence, in your own words, with follow-up questions built to find out whether it holds up.

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