ORganize around Value, Empower Teams & Accelerate outcomes
Is your organization still managing products and technology through projects, fragmented funding, functional silos, and heavyweight governance?
Many organizations have adopted Agile but still struggle to connect strategy, investment, product management, technology, and delivery. Teams remain fractionally allocated. Funding follows projects rather than products. Decisions move through gates and handoffs. Product, engineering, and operations work toward different priorities.
A Product Operating Model (POM) changes how the organization works.
LitheSpeed helps organizations design and activate Product Operating Models that connect strategy, investment, durable product and platform teams, modern delivery, operations, and governance around measurable outcomes.
Our approach combines Product Operating Model consulting, Agile VMO®, Lean Portfolio Management, product discovery, Agile delivery, DevOps, platform engineering, and AI-enabled ways of working into an integrated operating system.
Using our proven Assess, Align & Accelerate approach, we help you move from fragmented projects and silos toward persistent teams, adaptive investment, continuous governance, and faster value delivery.
ASSESS - IDENTIFY THE CHALLENGES
- Product Operating Model Readiness: Evaluate how strategy, funding, product management, technology, operations, governance, and delivery work together today.
- Project-to-Product Assessment: Identify where projects, fractional allocation, functional silos, and handoffs limit durable product ownership.
- Value & Flow Analysis: Examine how demand moves from strategy through discovery, delivery, deployment, and operations to identify queues, dependencies, and bottlenecks.
- Product & Platform Team Assessment: Evaluate team structures, leadership, engineering capability, operational accountability, and end-to-end ownership.
- Governance Assessment: Identify late-stage gates, excessive approvals, and heavyweight processes that slow delivery without reducing risk.
- AI Readiness: Identify opportunities to use AI across product discovery, software delivery, knowledge management, decision-making, and governance.
ALIGN - DESIGN YOUR PRODUCT OPERATING MODEL
- Fit-for-Purpose POM: Design an operating model connecting strategy, investment, products, platforms, delivery, operations, and governance.
- Durable Product & Platform Teams: Organize long-lived, cross-functional teams around customer journeys, business capabilities, technology platforms, and value streams.
- End-to-End Accountability: Establish clear Product, Engineering, Execution, and Operations responsibilities across Plan–Discover–Build–Run–Improve.
- Strategy-to-Execution Alignment: Connect enterprise priorities and outcomes to portfolios, roadmaps, backlogs, and team capacity.
- Adaptive Funding: Shift from temporary project funding and fractional allocation toward persistent product funding and stable, dedicated team capacity.
- Agile VMO® & Continuous Governance: Create the management mechanisms needed to coordinate strategy, investment, prioritization, risk, dependencies, standards, and organizational learning.
ACCELERATE - ACTIVATE AND SCALE
- POM Pilots: Launch targeted product or platform pilots that demonstrate new ways of working and create evidence for broader adoption.
- Product & Platform Team Enablement: Coach leaders and teams in product management, discovery, prioritization, flow, engineering, operations, and continuous improvement.
- Agile VMO® Activation: Establish the cross-enterprise capability connecting strategy, investment, portfolios, products, platforms, and execution.
- Modern Delivery & DevOps: Strengthen CI/CD, automated testing, platform engineering, reliability, security, and engineering practices.
- Flow Management: Make work, dependencies, constraints, and decision delays visible and systematically remove impediments.
- Outcome-Based Metrics: Measure value, flow, reliability, security, service performance, and learning rather than activity and utilization.
- AI-Enabled Delivery: Apply AI across discovery, development, testing, portfolio analysis, knowledge management, and governance with appropriate human oversight.
PRODUCT OPERATING MODEL TRANSITION
From Projects to Persistent Value Delivery
How do you move from experimenting with product practices to actually operating as a product organization?
LitheSpeed partners with executives, product leaders, technology leaders, and teams to design and implement a Product Operating Model tailored to your organization.
Rather than imposing another standardized scaling framework, we identify the operating-model changes most likely to improve value, flow, accountability, customer outcomes, and responsiveness.
A successful transition connects five critical elements:
Strategy & Investment
Translate strategy into measurable outcomes and dynamically allocate funding and capacity toward the highest-value opportunities.
Product & Platform Teams
Build durable, cross-functional teams aligned to customer journeys, business capabilities, technology platforms, and value streams.
Product Discovery & Delivery
Connect continuous product discovery with iterative delivery so teams solve meaningful customer and business problems.
Modern Engineering & Operations
Integrate Agile engineering, DevOps, platform engineering, reliability, security, and operational performance throughout the product lifecycle.
Agile VMO® & Continuous Governance
Replace episodic planning and late-stage gates with continuous strategy alignment, Lean Portfolio Management, guardrails, flow management, risk management, and organizational learning.
Agile VMO® and Lean portfolio management
A Product Operating Model requires more than empowered product teams. It requires a management system that connects strategy with execution.
The Agile VMO® provides the connective tissue between enterprise leadership and distributed product and platform teams.
The Agile VMO is not another PMO or centralized control function. It is a working management capability that helps leaders and teams make better decisions, coordinate across organizational boundaries, and continuously redirect investment and capacity toward value.
LitheSpeed helps organizations establish capabilities for:
- Strategy translation and outcome alignment
- Lean Portfolio Management
- Product and platform portfolio management
- Adaptive funding and capacity allocation
- Portfolio Kanban and demand management
- OKRs and outcome measurement
- Cross-team dependency and impediment management
- Value, flow, reliability, security, and service metrics
- Continuous governance and decision-making
Product & Platform Team Development
Changing the organizational chart does not create a Product Operating Model.
Teams need the skills, accountabilities, practices, and leadership environment required to operate differently.
LitheSpeed helps organizations establish and mature durable product and platform teams with ownership across the product lifecycle.
Our consultants and coaches strengthen:
- Product strategy and roadmapping
- Product discovery and customer insight
- Product ownership and backlog management
- Value stream management
- Team Topologies and platform organization
- Cross-functional collaboration
- Scrum, Kanban, and Agile delivery
- Flow and dependency management
- Product operations
- Continuous improvement
Agile Engineering, DevOps & AI-Enabled Delivery
A Product Operating Model cannot deliver continuous value if the underlying engineering system cannot move at the same speed.
LitheSpeed helps organizations modernize the technical practices and delivery infrastructure required to support durable product and platform teams.
Our engineering consultants and coaches help establish:
- CI/CD Pipelines: Automate build, integration, testing, deployment, and feedback.
- Cloud & Kubernetes: Build scalable, resilient, container-based delivery environments.
- Automated Testing: Establish rapid, reliable quality feedback throughout development.
- DevSecOps: Integrate security and compliance into the software delivery lifecycle.
- Platform Engineering: Create reusable platforms and paved roads that improve developer experience and accelerate delivery.
- Observability & Reliability: Connect delivery with production performance, service health, and operational learning.
- AI-Assisted Development: Apply AI to requirements, coding, testing, documentation, analysis, and software delivery.
- Technical Debt & Architecture: Continuously balance modernization, technical health, and product investment.
WE HELP WITH
Product Operating Model Transition
Agile VMO® & Adaptive Governance
DEVOPS, Platform Engineering & MLOps
We adopt a holistic approach that encompasses your people, processes, and products. Our coaches are adept at instilling Lean, DevOps and Agile practices across various programs, enhancing Agile competency among team members in diverse roles, and refining Agile engineering tools, skills, and methods.
Our experience spans leading and executing DevOps and Agile transformations in a broad spectrum of industries and levels of Agile maturity. This comprehensive journey transforms organizations through their teams, empowering them to fully leverage the benefits of Lean and Agile methodologies.
Crucially, our goal is to equip your organization with the tools and insights necessary for sustained change. We focus on building teams that are not only transformed but also self-sustaining, ensuring long-term success and continuous improvement in your Agile journey.
Our development team was in a state of disarray, we needed education, process, and solutions to the chaos. We were hoping Lithespeed could give us a base level of Scrum knowledge for the entire team as well as the executive team so we could be aligned in our efforts. We absolutely feel like the Lithespeed engagement gave us what we were asking for and more, they gave our team a sense of excitement for the process and what it could bring to the team.
- Sharlene Cooper, Product Owners Manager, DISA