Ten focus areas.
Pick whatever's biting you right now.
Each one is about two minutes — seven questions, then a focused read on that one slice of how your product squad ships. Do as many as you like, in any order.
How work moves
Work intake and readiness
Does work arrive ready to start, or does clarity happen mid-flight?
Sprint goal and definition of done
Does each sprint have one outcome, and does 'done' actually mean done?
Phase visibility
Can you see where each piece of work sits, without asking anyone?
Cross-functional handoffs
When work moves between disciplines, is it a process — or a personality?
How decisions get made
Prioritisation and pipeline control
What actually decides what goes in next — outcomes, or urgency?
Capacity and forecasting
Do commitments match real capacity, or does the maths happen later?
Outcome connection
After it ships, do you know if it actually moved the metric?
How the system holds
Stakeholder visibility
Can leadership see status without interrupting the team?
Risk and escalation
When something is going wrong, does it surface early or late?
Retrospective follow-through
Do retros change anything, or does the same stuff come up next time?