Overview

The Agile Operating Model Diagnostic is a focused, executive-level consulting engagement designed to assess the effectiveness of your current Agile delivery system — from team structures and governance to flow of work and leadership behaviors. This service provides a clear, evidence-based picture of what's working, what's misaligned, and what needs to change to accelerate business outcomes through Agile at scale.

This is not a maturity checklist or framework compliance audit. It’s a strategic diagnostic that translates delivery performance into actionable insights for senior decision-makers.

Why This Matters

Many organisations adopt Agile practices but fail to realise the full benefits — faster delivery, empowered teams, clearer priorities — because the underlying operating model remains unchanged. Symptoms include:

• Slow or unpredictable delivery cycles

• Fragmented roles and unclear ownership

• Teams optimized for activity, not outcomes

• Frustrated leadership unsure where to intervene

The Agile Operating Model Diagnostic helps you understand why this is happening and how to fix it — quickly and with precision.

Who It’s For

• CTOs, CIOs, CPOs seeking clarity on delivery performance

• Heads of Product or Delivery scaling Agile across multiple teams

• Transformation leaders or enterprise coaches needing a clear starting point or reset

• Organisations preparing for or recovering from a restructure, merger, or Agile transformation stall

Key Outcomes

• A clear view of how well your current Agile structures, practices, and leadership behaviors support speed, adaptability, and business alignment

• Identification of structural bottlenecks, coordination challenges, and delivery drag

• Strategic recommendations that can be acted on immediately — and sustained long-term

What We Assess

Our diagnostic spans five core dimensions of your Agile operating model:

DimensionFocusStructure & TeamsAre teams designed around value? Are roles and interfaces clear?Governance & FlowAre decisions made at the right level? Are priorities stable?Ways of WorkingAre Agile practices consistent and outcome-oriented?Leadership & CultureAre leaders enabling autonomy, or creating dependency?Visibility & MetricsAre the right things being measured and acted on?

Approach

1. Kickoff & Alignment

   • Meet with key sponsors to understand strategic goals and context

   • Define scope (e.g., portfolio, department, cross-functional unit)

2. Stakeholder Interviews

   • Conduct 8–12 targeted interviews across leadership, product, tech, and team levels

   • Capture on-the-ground pain points and systemic patterns

3. Artifact & Workflow Review

   • Assess backlogs, planning cadences, metrics dashboards, team boards, roadmaps

   • Observe selected ceremonies (standups, planning, retrospectives, demos)

4. Analysis & Synthesis

   • Use our proprietary diagnostic framework to identify bottlenecks and misalignments

   • Compare current state against modern Agile delivery models (e.g., Team Topologies, Value Stream thinking)

5. Findings Report & Executive Debrief

   • Deliver a visual summary report (10–15 slides) with actionable insights

   • Facilitate a 90-minute debrief session with leadership team to prioritise next steps

Deliverables

• Agile Operating Model Scorecard (across 5 dimensions)

• Findings & Recommendations Report (slide deck format)

• Executive Summary with Prioritised Action Areas

• Optional: Org Design Overlay (team structure vs. value flow)

• Optional: Follow-up advisory support to implement changes

Timeline & Investment

• Duration: 2–3 weeks from kickoff to final presentation

• Effort: Approx. 2–3 hours of leadership time per week

• Price: Fixed fee starting at AUD $9,500 (variable based on scope and org size)

Sample Insights You Might Walk Away With:

• “Our delivery teams are structured around legacy IT components, not products.”

• “Backlogs are treated as wishlists, not as strategic prioritisation tools.”

• “Too many stakeholders are involved in decisions, slowing things down.”

• “Agile rituals are happening, but nobody’s using the outputs to course-correct.”

• “We need to separate delivery accountability from project funding logic.”

Why Empirique.io?

Unlike generic Agile assessments, we combine executive-level insight, deep delivery expertise, and enterprise systems thinking. We’ve worked with leaders who needed more than Agile compliance — they needed strategic clarity to unlock performance across product, tech, and teams.

Overview

The Product Delivery Playbook is a structured, collaborative consulting engagement that helps growing organisations design and embed a consistent, scalable, and outcome-focused way of working across their product and delivery teams.

It’s ideal for companies where delivery is happening — but not always predictably, cohesively, or in alignment with strategy. If different teams use different processes, decision rights are unclear, or there’s confusion around what “done” means — this playbook creates clarity, confidence, and repeatability.

Rather than enforcing rigid frameworks, we co-create a tailored delivery model grounded in your organisation’s goals, values, and existing strengths — giving teams a shared operating system without killing autonomy.

Why This Matters

As organisations grow from a few teams to many, chaos often replaces speed. Teams start working in silos. Product and engineering disagree on priorities. Delivery slows, despite more headcount. Without a shared playbook, every team reinvents the wheel — and leadership loses visibility and leverage.

The Product Delivery Playbook solves this by designing a simple, cohesive system that aligns strategy to execution and empowers teams to ship value consistently.

Who It’s For

• Chief Product Officers / Heads of Product scaling product orgs across squads or verticals

• VPs of Engineering / Heads of Delivery trying to create cohesion across Agile teams

• Startups or scale-ups (50–500+ employees) growing rapidly or post-restructure

• Organisations that have “gone Agile” but lack consistency, metrics, or accountability

Key Outcomes

• A unified, flexible product delivery framework tailored to your business

• Clear guidance for how teams plan, prioritise, build, and deliver work

• Defined roles, cadences, artifacts, and metrics — without bureaucracy

• Increased confidence from leadership and product/tech teams alike

• A foundation for scaling responsibly and accelerating delivery velocity

Core Elements of the Playbook

ElementDescriptionDelivery LifecycleDefine and visualise your unique “idea to value” flow across teamsCadence DesignWeekly, fortnightly, and quarterly rhythms for planning, alignment, feedbackTeam Operating NormsClarity on backlog management, standups, reviews, and retro expectationsRole DefinitionsAlignment on who does what: Product Manager, PO, Tech Lead, Delivery LeadTemplates & StandardsConsistent tools for prioritisation, story refinement, OKR mapping, release planningMetrics & VisibilityLightweight delivery metrics linked to outcomes (not just activity)

Our Approach

1. Discovery & Assessment

   • Interviews with key product, tech, and delivery leads

   • Review of current team ways of working, tooling, delivery cycles

   • Map existing delivery flows, pain points, and misalignments

2. Co-Design Workshops

   • Collaborative design sessions with cross-functional leadership

   • Define what "good" delivery looks like at your org

   • Align on principles, language, and tradeoffs

3. Playbook Development

   • Build a modular, accessible playbook in PDF, Confluence, or Notion format

   • Include visuals, templates, and real team examples

   • Optional: brand styling, onboarding guide, printable quick-start cards

4. Rollout Strategy

   • Develop a 30-60-90 day rollout plan

   • Optionally deliver enablement sessions with team leads and stakeholders

   • Identify champions to embed the model sustainably

Deliverables

• Custom Product Delivery Playbook
  A digital (and optionally printable) guide that teams can actually use

• Workflow Diagrams
  Visuals mapping your core planning, delivery, and feedback loops

• Templates & Standards Pack
  Planning canvas, story map, backlog refinement guide, definition of done

• Implementation Roadmap
  Timeline and responsibilities for rollout, training, and follow-up

• Optional: Leadership Workshop Deck
  Used to introduce the playbook at exec or team levels

Timeline & Investment

• Duration: 3–4 weeks

• Effort: Approx. 2–3 stakeholder hours/week (plus 1–2 workshops)

• Price: Fixed fee from AUD $12,000 – $18,000 depending on scope

Example Results Clients See

• Teams start speaking a shared language of delivery and expectations

• Product and engineering align on how to prioritise and track progress

• New hires onboard faster with a ready-made playbook

• Leadership gains visibility into progress and outcomes — not just output

• Delivery velocity increases without adding process overhead

Why Empirique.io?

You don’t need another framework. You need a delivery model that fits your context, created with your people, for your stage of growth. Empirique.io combines deep Agile expertise with real-world scaling experience to give your organisation a delivery system you can trust — and actually use.

Overview

Executive Agile Advisory is a high-trust, strategic consulting engagement designed to support senior leaders — CTOs, CPOs, CIOs, Heads of Delivery — as they lead Agile transformation, scale delivery operations, or optimise product/tech performance.

It offers targeted, experienced counsel to help you make better strategic decisions, navigate organisational complexity, and lead change with clarity and confidence. It’s not coaching in the traditional Agile sense. This is executive-level advisory — grounded in delivery systems thinking, modern Agile leadership, and proven transformation principles.

Why This Matters

Most Agile transformations stall not because of bad tools or frameworks, but because leadership lacks trusted, context-aware guidance. Many senior leaders are handed a playbook that doesn’t fit, a team of coaches who can’t speak at their level, or a mandate to deliver faster with no structural support.

This service fills that gap — providing you with an experienced strategic partner to test decisions, spot systemic blockers, design interventions, and keep Agile aligned to real business outcomes, not theatre.

Who It’s For

• CTOs / CIOs / CPOs leading complex Agile transformations or delivery improvement initiatives

• VPs or Heads of Product, Engineering, or Delivery trying to scale without losing cohesion

• Founders or CEOs of product-led scale-ups under delivery pressure

• Transformation leads or Agile PMO heads seeking strategic guidance or a sounding board

Engagement Models

FormatDescriptionMonthly RetainerOngoing access to strategic advisory, typically 2–4 sessions per month, with ad hoc reviews and supportQuarterly Strategic Sprint4–6 week advisory sprint aligned to a major initiative, restructure, or delivery pivotOne-off Advisory Intensive1–2 day deep-dive with executive team to diagnose issues and align on direction

Key Areas of Focus

AreaFocus QuestionsOrganisational DesignAre your teams structured around value? Are decision rights clear and scalable?Leadership EffectivenessAre your leaders enabling delivery or micromanaging dysfunction?Agile Strategy & RoadmapDo you have a clear sequence of Agile improvements and operating model shifts?Scaling AgilityAre you growing delivery capability without adding unnecessary complexity?Executive MetricsAre you measuring outcomes that matter — not just Agile rituals or team activity?

What’s Included

1. Strategy Intake & Goal Mapping

   • Initial 90-minute deep-dive to understand your organisation, challenges, and leadership goals

   • Shared understanding of context, scope, and strategic priorities

2. Monthly Executive Sessions

   • Structured 60–90 minute sessions to work through key decisions, organisational challenges, or delivery blockers

   • Topics may include: operating model design, Agile capability maturity, product/delivery alignment, or prioritisation frameworks

3. On-Demand Advisory Support

   • Access to a trusted advisor via Slack/Email for reviews, second opinions, or strategy validation

   • Feedback on OKRs, delivery plans, structure proposals, or metrics dashboards

4. Leadership Team Enablement (Optional)

   • Facilitation of 1–2 sessions with your direct reports or cross-functional leaders to align on direction or cascade transformation goals

5. Quarterly Progress Summary (for ongoing clients)

   • Visual summary of progress, wins, and recalibrated focus areas for the next quarter

Deliverables

• Executive Advisory Log (track topics, insights, actions)

• Strategic Recommendation Notes (where applicable)

• Org Design Feedback (if structural changes are explored)

• Quarterly Insight Report (for ongoing engagements)

• Optional: Leadership Enablement Workshop Materials

Pricing

OptionPrice (AUD)NotesMonthly Advisory RetainerFrom $3,000–$6,000/monthIncludes up to 4 strategic sessions and asynchronous supportQuarterly Strategic SprintFrom $8,500–$12,0004–6 weeks, focused outcomesAdvisory Intensive$5,000–$7,500One-time 1–2 day deep dive with summary report

Common Scenarios Where This Helps

• You're scaling quickly and want to avoid delivery chaos

• You’ve invested in Agile but still feel slow and misaligned

• You're leading a transformation and need a neutral advisor

• You’re restructuring teams or roles and want to design for flow

• You want to lead with confidence — and speak the language of Agile without becoming a Scrum evangelist

Why Empirique.io?

At Empirique.io, we speak both strategy and delivery fluently. We’ve supported executives across scale-ups and enterprise environments who need more than Agile coaching — they need a thinking partner, a systems designer, and a trusted mirror to accelerate progress.

Our approach is grounded in evidence, tailored to your context, and always focused on outcomes, not orthodoxy.

Overview

The Agile Team Accelerator is a rapid, high-touch engagement designed to quickly reset or elevate the performance of Agile delivery teams. Whether your team is newly formed, stalled, or under pressure to deliver faster, this service identifies what's slowing them down — and puts in place the practices, clarity, and rhythms they need to build momentum and deliver real outcomes.

This isn’t long-term coaching or Agile evangelism. It’s a 2–3 week performance intervention that combines systems thinking, delivery coaching, and practical workflow design to unblock delivery and give the team a clear, confident path forward.

Why This Matters

As organisations grow or shift direction, teams often get stuck — not for lack of talent, but because of misalignment, ambiguity, or inconsistent delivery habits. You may see:

• Confused roles and unclear ownership

• Teams doing “Agile rituals” with no results

• Stories stuck in progress with no end in sight

• Delivery pressure rising but output stalling

The Agile Team Accelerator resolves these issues at the system level — without micromanagement, heavy process, or staff changes. It creates an environment where teams can deliver faster, with purpose and autonomy.

Who It’s For

• Engineering Managers / Tech Leads / Product Owners responsible for team performance

• Scrum Masters / Agile Coaches looking to jumpstart or realign delivery teams

• Heads of Delivery / VPs of Engineering seeking fast, visible improvements

• Project sponsors or transformation leads launching new teams or recovering troubled ones

Typical Scenarios

• Newly formed Agile team after a restructure or reorg

• Team assigned to a high-priority project but lacking cohesion

• Underperforming team with delivery gaps or missed commitments

• High-functioning team that’s plateaued and needs to evolve

• A company scaling rapidly and needing to standardise team practices

Key Objectives

AreaGoalClarityDefine the team’s purpose, commitments, and interfaces clearlyFocusStreamline work-in-progress, eliminate noise, clarify prioritiesAccountabilityReinforce ownership through roles, agreements, and delivery normsFlowOptimise backlog structure, sprint/kanban process, and velocity alignmentFeedback LoopsImprove retrospectives, reviews, and customer feedback mechanismsConfidenceBuild psychological safety, morale, and a sense of progress

Our Approach

🧠 Week 1: Discovery & Baseline

• Stakeholder sync (tech lead, PO, SM, manager) to align goals

• Team diagnostic: surveys + lightweight interviews

• Review of delivery artifacts (Jira, board setup, metrics, standups, planning)

🛠️ Week 2: Team Reboot

• Facilitate Team Reset Workshop to align on mission, roles, delivery model

• Hands-on tuning of cadence, workflow, and backlog practices

• Refactor story structure, WIP limits, board design, definitions of ready/done

• Shadow 1–2 team ceremonies and provide real-time coaching

🚀 Week 3: Optimise & Handoff

• Implement quick wins and adjust based on feedback

• Provide Team Operating Guide – a tailored, documented way of working

• Facilitate leadership handoff or follow-up coaching plan

Deliverables

• Team Operating Guide
  A lightweight playbook including roles, cadences, planning approach, and workflow agreements

• Workshop Outcomes Summary
  Key decisions, agreed actions, and system changes

• Board & Backlog Optimisation
  A tuned workflow with real-time usage by the team

• Optional: Follow-up 30-day check-in to assess improvements and adjust

Timeline & Investment

• Duration: 2–3 weeks

• Effort: Minimal lift for leadership; ~4–6 hours of team time total

• Price: From AUD $6,000 – $9,500 depending on scope and team complexity

Results You Can Expect

• Increased delivery confidence and visible progress

• Clearer team roles, boundaries, and expectations

• Reduced chaos and churn in backlog and planning

• Faster decision-making and issue resolution

• Tangible delivery wins in the first 2 sprints post-engagement

Why Empirique.io?

At Empirique.io, we don’t sell Agile ceremonies — we design and activate delivery environments that work. Our Agile Team Accelerator blends leadership psychology, team dynamics, and operational design to drive high performance without overhead. Every engagement is contextual, outcome-driven, and focused on enabling teams to own their success.