Scale Up Readiness Assessments
Building an Action Plan to Scale Up
Is your organization struggling to scale its product development and engineering practice? Do you need help identifying areas for improvement and providing actionable recommendations for growth?
Scale Up Readiness Assessment Benefits:
By working with us, you'll gain:
A comprehensive understanding of your Product Engineering organization's strengths and weaknesses
Stage Appropriate actionable insights and recommendations to drive growth and competitiveness
A tailored action plan to help you scale successfully
Ongoing support and guidance as you implement changes and improvements
Our Approach:
Our Scale Up Readiness Assessment is a comprehensive evaluation designed to help companies prepare for rapid growth by assessing their readiness across all critical product development areas. This assessment is built on our 10 Pillar Assessment Framework, which evaluates companies against best practices tailored to their stage of growth. We use detailed radars for each pillar to identify strengths and weaknesses, setting minimum standards that align with stage-appropriate growth expectations. We understand that no organization is perfect, and our goal is to provide actionable insights rather than perfection.
Here’s what you can expect from our assessment:
Comprehensive Evaluation Across All 10 Pillars: Our assessment covers a wide range of critical areas essential for successful scaling, ensuring that no aspect of your product development organization is overlooked.
Detailed Findings and Recommendations: We provide in-depth analysis of your current state, highlighting areas of excellence and those needing improvement. Our recommendations are tailored to address specific challenges and opportunities for growth.
Executive Dashboard: Our assessment culminates in an executive dashboard that offers a clear, high-level overview of your company’s readiness to scale. This dashboard helps executives quickly grasp key findings and strategic priorities.
Prioritized Roadmap: Based on our assessment, we develop a prioritized roadmap that outlines the steps needed to address identified gaps and leverage opportunities. This roadmap ensures that you focus on the most critical areas first, maximizing your growth potential.
Navigating Growth with Radars
Radars are a powerful tool in our assessment framework, providing a visual representation of your organization’s maturity across various pillars, such as Software Development Practices. We plot your current competency level on a radar diagram. This visual tool allows you to identify areas of strength and weakness, enabling you to prioritize investments that will have the greatest impact on your capabilities. Radars help you understand where you are now and where you should target improvements over the next period, ensuring that your growth strategy is informed and effective.
Here are some ways radars support business growth:
Visualize Current State: Radars offer a clear visual representation of your organization’s current maturity level across different focus areas, making it easier to identify strengths and weaknesses.
Prioritize Investments: By highlighting areas that need improvement, radars help you prioritize investments that will drive the most significant impact on your capabilities.
Stage-Specific Guidance: Radars provide stage-specific guidance, ensuring that your growth strategy aligns with your current stage of development, whether it’s pre-seed, seed, or beyond.
Future Targeting: Radars help set realistic targets for future growth by outlining the maturity levels you should aim for in each focus area, ensuring that your organization remains agile and adaptable while moving towards more robust processes.
(1) Sit: Team is still learning / exploring (2) Crawl: Foundational but underdeveloped, moderate limitations; (3) Walk: Adequate but with room for improvement; (4) Run: Strong and functioning effectively; (5) Fly: Outstanding, leading in best practices