Illustration of exploration and discovery representing the product design assessment journey

Hey Nick from Canoe!

Thanks for sharing your perspective. We’ve crunched the numbers, connected the dots, and the results are ready. Time to see how your team stacks up in the wild.

Score

10

Your team is: Forming

Your team is in an early developmental phase where people are still learning how to work together. Roles, responsibilities and expectations may not yet be explicit, which can create uncertainty about who should do what and how decisions are made. Communication is generally polite, but participation may be uneven as individuals figure out where they fit and what is safe to say. Trust is not absent, but it is fragile and conditional, often relying heavily on the leader to provide clarity and direction. Without shared goals or a visible picture of success, motivation and effort may feel uncoordinated, which slows momentum and hides potential. These conditions are normal in a forming team, and with the right support they provide a foundation for stronger collaboration later.

Over the next 90 days, three simple moves can make a real difference:

  1. Clarify why the team exists, who your key stakeholders are and what success looks like. Agree on a few clear goals and how you will track progress.
  2. Make roles and expectations visible. Spend time agreeing on 3-5 working norms that guide how you meet, decide and communicate.
  3. Start building psychological safety by making it easier to speak up. Invite feedback regularly and make small commitments visible to build trust.

Options to dive deeper with Canoe:

Adoption Discovery Sprint (2 weeks)
We focus on one product or service and map where adoption breaks down, using hands-on tools and real user insight.

Adoption-driven roadmap
A clear Now / Next / Later plan that aligns product, business, and operations around adoption and outcomes.

Book a short results review
30 minutes. We walk through your score and share 1–2 tailored ideas. No strings attached.

Some free canvas resources to help you get started!

Align your project and move forward with purpose. Clarity drives action.
The GROW Canvas helps teams define success, understand their current reality, explore opportunities, and commit to meaningful next steps. An ideal canvas to build a backlog and implementing valuable change.
Unlock your team’s full potential!
Strong teams don’t just happen—they’re shaped by clarity, alignment, and shared understanding. The CORE Team Canvas helps teams articulate who they are, what they aim to achieve, and how they’ll work together to get there.
Understand and engage key stakeholders.
The persona canvas is designed to help product teams, understand and engage their key stakeholders. By visualising each stakeholder as a persona, teams build a shared understanding of who they’re working with and how best to involve them.
Make a plan
Great planning sets teams up for clarity, momentum, and impact. The Annual Planning Wheel makes it easy to map out the year ahead, breaking time into structured, intuitive chunks using week numbers widely used in Norway and Scandinavia.
Service key contact

Curious about what we can explore together?