Workshop

From Theater and Feature Factory to a Business Lab

Do you see the value in becoming a Product Organization, but are unsure what to do beyond the buzz? This workshop helps you shape the path from where you are to where you want to be.

Self-Assessment

Where Is Your Organization on the Journey?

Are you a product theater? Factory? Or lab? This is where conversations with leaders start.

Product Theater

You have the vocabulary, the ceremonies, and the titles — but the organization still runs on projects, output metrics, and HiPPO decisions.

Feature Factory

Teams ship features continuously — but it's output-driven, not outcome-driven. You're building things, but not necessarily the right things.

Product Lab

Teams are empowered around outcomes, experiment their way to value, and operate with clarity on strategy and customer needs. This is the goal.

The Workshop

Design/Evolve Your Product Organization

Thinking done together, in real-time

The bulk of the thinking happens together in workshop sessions — not in a slide deck delivered after the fact. Focused empathy interviews before the workshop ensure we maximize session value.

Understand the why

Why companies shift toward customer-centric lean/agile product organizations operating as product labs — and what it would mean for your organization specifically.

Gain familiarity with product operating model principles

Learn lean/agile product operating model principles and patterns, and how they differ from your current operating model.

Assess your organization

Look at your organization through a product operating model lens to understand where you are and identify key improvement opportunities.

Determine your approach

Decide how to move forward in your context, with an emphasis on intent, principles, and context-appropriate patterns — not a one-size-fits-all framework.

Key Deliverables

What You Leave With

Desired operating system definition

What operating model do you want to adopt? Why? What will be the evidence of traction toward that goal?

Current state assessment

A clear picture of where you are currently and what sort of organization you want to become — focused on the behaviors you want to see.

Context-appropriate practices

A curated set of practices and patterns that could help you create this organization and enable the behaviors you want to see.

High-level evolution trail map

A product-oriented approach to pursuing a Product Operating Model — iterative, evidence-based, and adjustable as you learn.

Engagement Options

Partnership from Opportunity to Realization

Three tiers that build on each other — start where it makes sense for you

Product Operating Model Opportunities

A focused eye-opener workshop covering: Why a Product Operating Model, what it means in your context, organizational assessment through a product lens, and key improvement opportunities.

Product Operating Model Adoption Roadmap

Everything in Tier 1, plus a Product Operating Model blueprint and implementation approach/roadmap — creating and aligning on a product-oriented path forward.

Product Operating Model Adoption MVP

Everything in Tiers 1 & 2, plus 3–5 months of teaching, mentoring, and coaching through a strategically focused adoption MVP — with advisory availability for change leaders.

Format

How It Works

Preparation

1–2 days of focused empathy interviews to understand your context, goals, and constraints.

Workshop

2–3 days of hands-on working sessions, preferably offsite. Sized for your organization's complexity.

Who attends

Heads of Product, Technology, and their leadership teams — the people who shape and own the product operating model.

Ready to shape your Product Operating Model?

Yuval Yeret — Product/Scaling Advisor with 15+ years helping world-class companies refine their product organization — will facilitate the workshop and guide your exploration.