Offer – Maturity diagnosis
Is your product organization really aligned with your strategic objectives?
Uncoordinated tech and business teams, shifting priorities, impact that's hard to measure... These are the signs that it's time to take stock. Our Maturity Diagnostic tool helps you to quickly identify your areas for improvement and take the right action.
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What is a Product organization?
A Product organization places the user at the center of its decisions, aligns its teams around a shared vision, and fosters continuous learning to maximize impact. More and more organizations are adopting this model because applying agile methods alone doesn't always solve real-world operational problems.
Why carry out a maturity diagnosis ?
Identify your areas for improvement and prioritize your actions using the organizational maturity diagnosis Product offered by 5 Degrés.
> Identify your strengths and areas for improvement based on more than 100 criteria grouped into 20 key themes such as capacity management, the use of data in decision-making, solution design methods, the level of team focus or control of delivery quality.
> Benefit from an objective and contextualized analysis thanks to the immersion of our experts within your organization.
> Obtain actionable and prioritized recommendations based on their impact and implementation effort.
> Build a clear improvement backlog to accelerate your Product transformation.
Diagnosis in practice
An immersive and pragmatic approach
Consultants integrate directly into your organization for an in-depth and concrete analysis:
> Interviews with key stakeholders
> Participation in key ceremonies and meetings
> Study of backlogs and processes
> Analysis and restitution of results in the form of rating by theme
A modular tool according to your needs
The diagnosis can cover the entire operation of your Product organization, or focus on specific aspects, depending on the priorities identified:
Strategy and team structuring: clarifying the vision and aligning resources
Delivery Practices: optimizing processes to gain efficiency
Discovery Practices: Improving the Identification and Validation of Product Opportunities
Concrete results for an effective transformation
- A numerical assessment by theme
- A list of prioritized strategic recommendations
- An optimized backlog of improvement levers to maximize impact with controlled effort
- The main axes of analysis identified
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Testimonial from Agreenculture
Watch the video to find out how Agreenculture benefited from a maturity diagnosis as part of its organizational transformation. This in-depth analysis enabled us to define the key areas for development to optimize their product operations.
We had limitations that we didn't know how to address. The Diagnostic really opened our eyes to the right levers for improvement at source.
Clément Baron, CTO
Understanding the digital maturity assessment... beyond a simple audit
A digital maturity assessment is now an essential tool for any organization seeking to structure its transformation. It is not merely a matter of evaluating tools or technologies, but rather of measuring the company’s overall ability to align its strategy, organization, data, and product execution.
In most market-based approaches, this assessment is based on:
- an analysis of business processes and their digitization,
- an assessment of technological tools and infrastructure,
a measurement of digital culture and internal skills, - and the ability to leverage data to create value.
But this view is often too general. It provides a snapshot… without necessarily allowing us to pull the right levers.
Why traditional approaches reach their limits
Most of the content focuses on:
standardized assessment rubrics
self-report questionnaires
theoretical models of maturity
Outdated grids
These methods have one advantage: they allow for a quick assessment of the current situation. But they also have several limitations:
- they often remain disconnected from product-related operational issues,
- they produce generic recommendations that are not very actionable,
- They don't always reflect the reality of the teams (delivery, QA, data, product management).
The result: Companies identify their weaknesses… but don’t know exactly where to start.
The 5 Degrés Approach: Linking Digital Maturity and product maturity
At 5 Degrés, the diagnostic process isn’t limited to a theoretical assessment. It follows a clear approach: transforming the analysis into actionable insights that the Product teams can immediately put to use.
The agency takes a deeply product-driven approach, in line with its vision: to view the organization itself as a product that must be continuously optimized.
In practical terms, this means:
1. A multidimensional analysis grounded in reality
The assessment covers key areas such as:
- Product Organization and Governance
- Delivery Practices and Quality
- data utilization
- strategic alignment
This approach aligns with industry standards (processes, culture, technology), but translates them into concrete, observable practices.
2. Assessment Based on Real-Life Situations
Rather than abstract questionnaires, the analysis is based on:
- observation of practices
- interviews with the teams
- analysis of rituals, tools, and workflows
The goal: to objectively assess actual maturity, which is often overestimated by organizations.
3. Recommendations You Can Put into Action Right Away
Where many audits stop at simply identifying issues, 5 Degrés delivers:
- prioritized recommendations,
- a concrete roadmap,
- and initiatives aligned with business priorities.
In fact, this is what emerges from the projects we’ve carried out: an assessment can result in more than 30 strategic recommendations, covering both organizational structure and product practices.
A diagnosis as the starting point for a sustainable transformation
A digital maturity assessment is only valuable if it leads to concrete change.
When done properly, it allows you to:
- to clearly identify the organization's strengths and weaknesses,
- to prioritize investments and projects,
- to develop a roadmap aligned with the strategy,
- and to improve performance in a sustainable way.
It is precisely this logic that underpins the 5 Degrés approach: treating the assessment not as an end in itself, but as a catalyst for product transformation.
FAQ - Maturity Assessment
Its duration depends on the scope selected: the entire Product operation or a specific area such as Delivery, Discovery, or team structuring, as well as the number of stakeholders to be met with. The immersion phase includes interviews, participation in stand-up meetings, and a review of backlogs and processes, followed by analysis and reporting.
Key stakeholders in the product lifecycle: Product Management, Product Managers and Product Owners, tech leads, QA, design, and the business units that commission the work. The value of the assessment lies precisely in the comparison of different perspectives: differences in perception among teams often constitute the first actionable finding.
A quantitative assessment by theme, a list of prioritized strategic recommendations, and a backlog of improvement levers organized to maximize impact while keeping effort under control. The analysis is based on more than 100 criteria grouped into 20 themes: capacity management, use of data in decision-making, design methods, team focus, and control of delivery quality.
An agile audit assesses compliance with a framework: whether rituals are followed, artifacts are produced, and roles are in place. The Product Maturity Assessment evaluates the organization’s ability to create value, which is a separate issue. A team can correctly apply an agile framework while delivering features that no one uses.
No, and the format is flexible. A growing organization would be wise to establish the fundamentals (clarifying roles, defining a medium-term vision, defining “done,” and setting the scope for testing) before habits become entrenched. The assessment can then focus on a single area rather than covering the entire operation.
You have a prioritized improvement backlog that your teams can act on immediately. We can also support its implementation: targeted support for a specific project, workshops to get teams on board, or ongoing monitoring of rating changes over time. However, the assessment does not commit you to any subsequent phases.
