Scenaryo · Digital Products

    The best products come from teams that are allowed to decide.

    Digital product development for teams who want to solve real problems.

    We help your product teams solve customer problems themselves, test ideas in days and learn faster with AI. You set the direction. Your teams find the best way there.

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    15 min
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    questions in the assessment
    25
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    SVPG dimensions
    7
    SVPG dimensions
    to a working prototype
    6 weeks
    to a working prototype
    Product, design and engineering overlap around the customer problemPRODUCTDESIGNENGINEERINGCUSTOMER PROBLEM
    — Responsibility and knowledge live in the same place. That's the structural core.
    01The goal

    How strong product teams work

    Strong digital product teams are cross-functional (product, design, engineering), measured on outcomes and hold the decision authority to find the best way to a solution themselves.

    • 01

      They talk to customers every week

      Continuous Discovery: understand user needs before engineering budget flows.

    • 02

      They test ideas with prototypes

      Validate ideas quickly and rule out risks early, with real users.

    • 03

      They decide for themselves

      The team gets a customer problem and finds the best solution itself.

    • 04

      They measure impact

      Success shows in outcomes for customers and the business.

    In Empowered Teams, everyone involved learns to truly understand the customer, the data and the business goals. That knowledge produces better hypotheses, faster learning loops and the courage to build things nobody would have commissioned.

    ↑ Innovation

    Teams allowed to solve problems find solutions no stakeholder would have thought of.

    ↓ Time-to-Impact

    Fewer alignment loops, because the team is allowed to decide.

    ↑ Retention

    Engineers and designers who can really shape outcomes stay.

    02What AI changes

    When an idea costs days, discovery becomes a habit.

    AI lowers the cost of trying something out. A clickable prototype can now be ready in days. Teams can test far more ideas with real users before engineering budget flows.

    In our view, this also shifts the product manager's role: more time with customers, data and decisions, less time coordinating. We help your teams use this shift.

    AI in the product

    We prioritise AI use cases in your product by impact and feasibility and translate them into measurable outcomes.

    AI Transformation

    Tried on ourselves

    What we recommend, we use ourselves. Our Labs tools run in production, built with the same methods.

    Scenaryo Labs
    03The framework

    Autonomy needs context

    Empowerment needs leadership that sets the frame. The teams decide within it. That frame has five layers, and they connect.

    1. Vision

      01

      Where are we going?

      A picture of the future that sets direction for years.

    2. Strategy

      02

      Which paths do we choose – and which do we deliberately skip?

      Strategy also means deliberately skipping some paths. That gives teams something to hold on to when prioritising.

    3. Objectives

      03

      How do we measure progress?

      Measurable outcomes that show progress.

    4. Opportunities

      04

      Which customer problem do we solve next?

      This is where the team works: discover, prioritize, test.

    Principles

    How do we decide when goals conflict?

    Guardrails for trade-offs, valid on every layer.

    Every backlog priority can be traced back to the vision by asking “why?”. Every vision turns into concrete work by asking “how?”.

    Losing focus is rarely a discipline problem.

    When priorities follow volume, a layer above is usually missing: a clear strategy or a measurable objective.

    Learning flows upwards.

    What teams learn in discovery flows back up and sharpens objectives and strategy.

    Visibly written down.

    Context helps teams when it is visible and explained again and again.

    Method-agnostic.

    OKRs, opportunity solution trees, roadmaps: we use what fits your organization. What matters is that everything connects.

    How far does the chain reach in your teams? The assessment shows you.

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    04Where you stand

    Where does your team stand?

    Many organisations work as feature teams, even when they go by another name. Four questions give you a first sense of where your team stands:

    1. 01

      Can everyone on the team explain why the current feature is being built?

    2. 02

      Does the team decide what comes next based on user evidence?

    3. 03

      Do you measure releases by their effect on business outcomes?

    4. 04

      Do your product managers have time for customers and decisions?

    The full picture in about 15 minutes

    25 questions, about 15 minutes, full score per dimension. The report then delivers coaching recommendations and a 90-day plan.

    1. 01

      Team assessment

      The PM or CPO answers 25 calibrated questions about structure, processes and empowerment level – right in the browser, no setup.

    2. 02

      AI analysis

      Our assessment engine scores 7 SVPG dimensions, spots patterns and benchmarks your team against SVPG best practices.

    3. 03

      Prioritized action plan

      You get a concrete, prioritized transformation plan with quick wins and a 90-day roadmap – exportable on the spot.

    Full assessment

    25 questions across 7 SVPG dimensions. Answer honestly, because the value is in the diagnosis.

    Question 1 of 25
    Outcome focus
    How are your product teams primarily evaluated?
    Choose an answer to continue
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    E-commerce

    Why the model works particularly well in e-commerce.

    Experiments as points along a rising conversion curveCONVERSION
    01

    Data is available immediately.

    Conversion rate, add-to-cart, checkout abandonment, CLV – all measurable in real time. An Empowered Team can form a hypothesis, run an experiment, and learn within days whether the solution works.

    02

    Customer behaviour is too complex for top-down decisions.

    What the optimal checkout looks like depends on hundreds of user signals. In our project experience, teams that practice Continuous Discovery as a ritual see markedly better checkout conversion rates.

    03

    The pace requires real ownership.

    New competitors, seasonal peaks, algorithmic platform changes. Teams that are allowed to decide can respond within hours.

    "The most successful e-commerce platforms – from Amazon to Zalando – share one thing: teams working on customer problems."

    Case study: improving a shopping app with design thinking
    06How we support you

    How we support your teams

    A score tells you where you stand. For your teams to decide differently, it takes craft. We are happy to do that part with you:

    Every format plugs into the same frame: it strengthens exactly the layer you're missing.

    • 01

      Prototype in six weeks

      One prioritised use case, a working prototype in your environment, measurable KPIs from day one and a go/no-go decision for scaling. Fixed price per sprint.

    • 02

      Continuous Discovery as a habit

      Weekly customer contact, opportunity solution trees, assumptions tested before engineering budget flows. Discovery becomes a steady rhythm.

    • 03

      Design Sprints for the expensive questions

      When a decision is too big to argue about and too risky to build, five days produce a tested prototype and an answer.

    • 04

      PM and team coaching

      We pass on our knowledge so that it stays in your teams. Our goal is that one day you no longer need us.

    • 05

      Turnaround for initiatives that are stuck

      Sometimes the knot lies in the last few steps. We address it openly and suggest how to move forward.

    07Reading recommendations

    Product Management & SVPG

    Show 2 reading recommendations

    Two essential reads on the product model that powers empowered teams – and how GenAI is reshaping the PM role.

    • 01

      Empowered Product Teams

      SVPG / Marty Cagan

      The foundation for the product model – value, usability, feasibility, viability.

      Read
    • 02

      AI Product Management: 2 Years In

      Marty Cagan / SVPG 2025

      How GenAI changes the PM role – directly applicable.

      Read

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