Standardize framework
Establish a shared and repeatable approach to product development
Lead with strategy
Put a strong strategic planning framework in place. Set up your workspace hierarchy to match your organization's structure, adding as many levels as you need — such as company, division, product line, and individual products. Then, create goals and initiatives (or OKRs) at each level and link them. This keeps the business focused on building what matters most to customers.
Model your approach
Establish your product development methodology. Diagram the processes for strategizing, brainstorming, planning, building, releasing a product to market, and measuring success. Then, document standards and best practices for each stage. Get a jump-start with pre-defined templates for scrum and Scaled Agile Framework®, or use The Aha! Framework for product development: a strategic approach to agile work.
Define clear workflows
Reinforce your product development approach. Build repeatable and consistent workflows to set guardrails for how work gets done. Define custom statuses, formalize approvals, and create templates for everything from prioritization scorecards to releases and reports. Apply these standards across teams to ensure everyone follows the same approach.
Deliver more value — faster
Measure product value delivered to customers and the business. Track progress against overall business objectives and report on other product KPIs, such as the number of features shipped, usage metrics, and customer satisfaction. Analyze the effectiveness of your processes and identify ways to increase productivity to keep improving your product development approach.
Top capabilities for standardizing your framework
Design an approach | Define your product development framework, documenting workflows and best practices to improve how teams collaborate | |
Set clear strategy | Create business and product goals at every level of your organization and identify strategic initiatives to focus on shared objectives | |
Apply standards | Define custom workflows, assign cross-team work requests, and streamline approvals to drive process consistency | |
Build templates | Build workspace templates to pre-define everything from custom fields and terminology to release templates | |
Measure progress | Choose from 75+ pre-built list reports, pivot tables, and charts to analyze your product data | |
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