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Product Operating Model Designer

Describe your context, get a suggested starting pattern, then adjust each design choice. The designer checks your choices for conflicts and produces roles and a transition roadmap.

1. Your context

Suggested because: many products or shared platforms call for a platform-plus-product structure; a hybrid funding model eases the move from projects; regulation calls for embedded compliance checkpoints and federated decisions.

2. Design choices

Shared platform teams serve product-line teams.
One named owner for value, roadmap and results.
Core teams funded persistently; new initiatives by project.
Regular reviews, with compliance built into the lifecycle.
Central strategy and guardrails; product decisions in product lines.
Delivery measures plus a few outcome measures.

Consistency checks

    Roles you will need

      Transition roadmap

        These are rule-based starting points to prompt discussion. Test them with your leaders and teams before deciding.

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        About this tool

        A product operating model organizes teams, funding, ownership and governance around products instead of projects. Describe your context, review a suggested starting pattern, and adjust the design choices. The designer checks your choices for conflicts, lists the roles you will need, and outlines a phased transition roadmap.

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