A strategic initiative that empowers your people with the current insights, skills, and tools needed to excel in product development today.
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If you believe there's room for improvement in the way your team functions, you're not alone. A Harvard Business Review study cites that nearly 75% of cross-functional teams are dysfunctional*
This assessment is meticulously designed to evaluate and enhance the performance of your product teams. The service is crucial for organizations aiming to optimize their product development processes and outcomes by ensuring their teams are well-structured, skilled, and aligned with best practices.
Whether your team is in a state of flux or experiencing stagnation, this service brings third-party perspective and informed guidance to get everyone tracking in the right direction.
More than a review process; it’s a strategic initiative specifically designed for technology leaders at enterprise-level companies ready to optimize the workflow and collaboration of their teams.
First, we'll conduct a thorough assessment of your product team to examine the composition, skill sets, workflows, and methodologies
Next, we evaluate team performance against key metrics and industry benchmarks to identify areas of strength and opportunities for improvement.
One of the most critical functions of a team is communication and collaboration, both within and across teams. It's one of the most common points of failure as the group size grows or changes.
Based on our findings, we provide customized strategies for team development, including training recommendations, process improvements, and resource reallocation.
Crema performed a team assessment for an award-winning insurance brokerage firm that increased the engagement and accountability of it's team members. The client reported that their product and engineering leadership saw immediate results.
Armed with data-driven insights, you can make informed adjustments to tooling, processes, and collaboration, enhancing the overall team performance. Team assessments are designed not just to identify gaps but to bridge them, ensuring your group meets or exceeds expectation.
Evaluating the expertise present in your team provides a clear picture of what additional skills are required. Insights from the assessment can help in aligning team capabilities with the organization’s long-term goals. By projecting future needs and potential challenges, you can plan to hire practitioners who meet the requirements and are adaptable to continual growth.
Enhancing efficiency can translate directly into improved financial performance. These assessments can uncover operational inefficiencies that are costing your business valuable resources or opportunities. By aligning your product teams' operations with strategic business objectives, we not only optimize their performance but also boost your bottom line.
What you can expect:
A product team assessment differs from an HR initiative in its specific focus on evaluating and enhancing the performance of product development teams. While HR initiatives broadly address employee management, recruitment, training, and overall workforce development across the entire organization, product team assessments zero in on the composition, workflows, methodologies, and performance metrics of product teams.
Our product team assessments only realize their full value if we hold the client accountable to the commitments they made throughout this engagement. Thus, we must make sure that we help the customer succeed even post-engagement. All product team assessment engagements include a package of accountability communications where we check-in with your team at regular intervals to ensure they're tracking toward their agreed upon goals. We ask what's getting in their way if something isn't being completed and pass that information along to the c-suite.
We gain explicit commitment from your team by conducting a workshop near the end of the engagement. During this workshop, we review our findings, discuss our recommendations, and then empower your team members to decide which recommendations they want to move forward with. We then assign dates and assignees to each commitment along with immediate next steps.
