What should Reviews look like in a Product Operating Model?
Show me your review sessions and I can tell you if you're a feature factory or a product lab. How to shift product reviews from backlogs and deliverables to outcomes, leading indicators, and strategic traction.
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Show me your review sessions and I can usually tell whether you are in process theater, feature-factory mode, or product-lab mode. The review is where the operating model becomes visible. Are people reporting on work completed, or are they inspecting whether the work is changing outcomes?
If you want to shift from a feature factory to a product lab, change the focus of your review sessions. I am working with a product leader who wants the organization to focus on outcomes and help product managers think more strategically. Instead of reviews centered on backlogs, plans, outputs, and deliverables, we are coaching product managers to inspect the outcomes they are seeing from the work.
That means asking better questions. What are the leading indicators? Do we still believe this direction makes sense? What evidence are we seeing about how the product is doing? What are we learning from product and business KPIs? Do we have fresh ideas for moving the needle on North Star Metrics? Are there new metrics that matter now?
So how about you? What do your product reviews focus on? What have you changed to move them toward outcomes and impact?
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