Lean Capability Canvas.

Maximising the performance and impact of your product teams

Fundamentals Workshop.

Take your first step into building high-performing teams with strong continuous improvement mindsets

This workshop will equip you with the capabilities and tools to self-diagnose team challenges and define areas of improvement, allowing you to maximise your performance and impact.

After the workshop you’ll leave with a deeper understanding of how to use the Lean Capability Canvas and how to build upon it for a future of continuous improvement.

  • 01 Empowered product teams that are optimising their own practices and processes through self-driven continuous improvement

    02 Strong product thinking mindsets across product teams that allows them to better understand and serve their customers

    03 An organisation that understands the needs of its people and how to support them for growth, efficient delivery and effective product evolution

  • Enabling a Product Thinking Mindset

    We will discuss why continuous improvement is so crucial and what it means to be effective at product thinking

    Defining a High Performing Team

    Groups you will discuss and define what a high performing team means to you, settling on an overarching statement

    Principles of Product Thinking

    We will take a deep dive into the nine principles, what they mean to your team and how to understand them in a framework that builds strong product thinking mindsets

    Lean Capability Canvas

    We will run through the canvas, discussing each section and the importance of encouraging change within an organisation

    Mapping Capabilities

    Together you will map the capabilities required at stage and the actions required to improve, optimise or maintain the highest level

    Lean Capability Matrix (8 hour workshop only)

    Finally we will discuss which other areas your teams might focus on in the future and measure their progress, with the lens of the Principles of Product Thinking

  • Product teams that want to build strong continuous improvement and product thinking mindsets through practice optimisation

  • Duration - 4 hours / 8 hours, either fully remote or in person onsite at your office or location that suits you

  • A collaborative workshop for up to 30 people, groups will work together through all the activities

  • Free Consultation to make sure it’s right for you! Discounts on other product workshops when bought together

Quick-start Guide.

To structure the team’s continuous improvement conversation, the Lean Capability Canvas is a powerful tool

The canvas is made of three sections:

  1. Belief Statement — a clear and impactful statement the team agrees on together. This will define the area of improvement the team care about.

  2. Capability Level — given the belief statement, the team considers their level of capability ‘Currently’, what is actually ‘Required’ in their context and what a ‘Desired’ future level of capability might be for them to aim for.

  3. Team Actions — given their stage of capability, the team will decide on which actions they need to take to improve, optimise or maintain.

Here is an example of what that might look like if the product team wanted to be more ‘data informed’:

Building High-Performing Product Teams.

Empowering teams to build a continuous improvement mindset is the most effective way to create sustainable and scaleable change across your organisation

Incentivising them to focus on areas of improvement and allowing them time and space to experiment, will ensure they’re effective at bringing customer value and business benefit.

I’ve never come across a team that didn’t want to improve how they were working together. However, how many of those ‘ways of working’ meetings do we see driving any real change?

If you’re building high-performing teams then the Lean Capability Canvas is a powerful tool at all levels of the product organisation.

How do we define a high-performing team? This is a question that product leadership should be asking, aligning on and communicating to their teams. For me that looks something like this — “We consistently get things to customers that they value enough to pay for.”

Product leadership needs to incentivise teams to maximise their performance and impact, enabling strong product thinking and continuous improvement mindsets.

The Lean Capability Canvas aims to very quickly move the team into a position where they can take those theoretical “We want to improve!” conversations into the practical actions required for change.

Whether you’re part of the cross-functional product leadership that leads multiple teams, a member of a product team looking to improve working practices, or a Product Ops practitioner accountable in enabling teams to become more effective — the Lean Capability Canvas will be an invaluable tool that provides the structure for real actionable change.

Sustainable change can only be achieved via ground up co-creation. Without a self-driven continuous improvement mindset, or the tools that allow for it to grow, product organisations will be unable to drive feasible change within teams. Equally critical is the ability to replicate that success across the wider organisation for a sustainable competitive advantage.

While frameworks themselves do not solve problems, the value that is driven from the time carved out to have strong discourse about team challenges and where to go next, is where they excel.

Start to maximise the performance and impact of product teams today

I encourage you to download, use and share the canvas with your colleagues, teams and network. Let me know how you get on, I’d love to see your progress and use your examples in future case studies.

Testimonials.

Ashka Komorowska-Jalal

Senior Product Operations Manager

“I ran a product enablement workshop using Lean Capability Canvas with our New York team. The format allowed the group to think deeply on key product thinking principles and our mission, as well as define key areas for improvement. It helped us to find valuable time to stop and reflect on how we work and what’s important to our business. It ignited a great discussion, something that we often struggle to find the time for in everyday work, and we wrapped up the session with a clear set of team actions. I’m looking forward to repeating it with other product teams in the future and using the data to inform our ways of working.”

Let’s work together.

Product Ops Advisory

For product leaders … who want to unlock their product organisation’s full potential, amplify the team’s impact, and bring clarity in a complex world

Product Ops Consulting

For product leaders … who want to establish a high-performing product organisation, enabling faster and higher quality decision making at scale

Career Coaching

For individuals … looking to accelerate their career and land their dream role in product leadership, management, design or operations