Illustration of exploration and discovery representing the product design assessment journey

Hey Slim Shady 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

50

Your team is: Emerging

Your team is moving beyond politeness and starting to test ideas, roles and ways of working. Disagreement becomes more visible as people explore alternative approaches and challenge assumptions. While this can feel uncomfortable, it is often the stage where real progress begins, because clarity is not possible without tension. Trust is developing, yet still uneven, which means some topics may be avoided and accountability may not be consistently applied. Routines and decision-making processes exist in some form, but may be informal or contested, which creates friction around prioritisation and follow-through. The leader plays an important stabilising role during this stage by facilitating dialogue and helping the team define boundaries, expectations and goals. With the right support, this phase builds resilience and sets the stage for a more mature way of working.

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

  1. Facilitate a team session to align on top priorities, what can wait and how progress will be measured.
  2. Clarify who owns what and where roles overlap. Co-create a visual team charter that includes working agreements and responsibilities.
  3. Create space to address tensions. Introduce check-ins or retros that help surface concerns constructively and strengthen 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.

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