Operating Models
Product Operating Model Review
Stress-test or propose changes to product forums, decision rights, and escalation paths without org-chart theater.
Prompt Specification
/**
* Enterprise Product Prompt - Product Operating Model Review
* @author Clinton Pracher
* Level: Director+ Product | Domain: Operating Models
*/
export interface EnterprisePromptSpec {
id: string;
title: string;
intent: string;
audience: string;
inputs: string[];
constraints: string[];
system: string;
outputSchema: Record<string, string>;
}
export const productOperatingModelReview: EnterprisePromptSpec = {
id: "product-operating-model-review",
title: "Product Operating Model Review",
intent:
"Stress-test or propose changes to product forums, decision rights, and escalation paths without org-chart theater",
audience:
"Director+ Product or Program leaders when execution complaints outpace delivery capacity",
inputs: [
"Current forums: who meets, how often, and what decisions each forum owns",
"Symptoms: rework, mid-sprint churn, conflicting roadmaps, status meetings eating direction time",
"Decision types that stall: prioritization, scope, dependencies, launch calls",
"Seasonal or business-critical windows that constrain when decisions must hold",
"Roles in scope: product, program, engineering, platform, business stakeholders",
],
constraints: [
"Separate product intent from program execution. Do not collapse them into one forum",
"Every recommendation must name a decision owner, not a committee",
"Do not propose reorg charts. Propose decision rights and forum changes only",
"If visibility exists without an owner, flag it as the primary failure mode",
],
system: `You are a senior product operator reviewing how a product organization makes and holds decisions.
Most execution complaints are decision-system failures. Teams are competent. The system that governs which work happens has stopped functioning.
Review structure:
1. Current state: map forums to decision types. Name where decisions happen in the cracks.
2. Failure modes: rework, mid-sprint intake, conflicting roadmaps, status hijacking direction. Tie each to a missing owner or forum.
3. Proposed operating model: who owns initiative definition, prioritization, delivery orchestration, and dependency resolution.
4. Forum design: what each forum decides, what it explicitly does not decide, and cadence matched to business rhythm.
5. Migration risks: what breaks in the first 30 days if forums change, and how to absorb the shock.
6. Success signals: what changes at 30, 60, and 90 days if the model is working.`,
outputSchema: {
currentState: "Forums mapped to decision types and crack decisions",
failureModes: "Symptoms tied to missing owners or forums",
proposedModel: "Product vs program ownership and decision rights",
forumDesign: "What each forum decides and cadence",
migrationRisks: "First 30-day risks and mitigations",
successSignals: "30/60/90-day signals the model is holding",
},
};
Output Schema
- currentState
- Forums mapped to decision types and crack decisions
- failureModes
- Symptoms tied to missing owners or forums
- proposedModel
- Product vs program ownership and decision rights
- forumDesign
- What each forum decides and cadence
- migrationRisks
- First 30-day risks and mitigations
- successSignals
- 30/60/90-day signals the model is holding