Product Development Acceleration
Development stuck in a loop? A short sprint to find the blockers, test better ways of working, and hand you a concrete list of fixes.
Development at an impasse — the team grinding the same tasks every week with no visible progress, and no outside view of what's actually blocking it.
Know the feeling when development hits an impasse — the team wrestling the same tasks every week and no progress in sight? Product Development Acceleration is the fix. We run a short sprint whose job is to find the problems and blockers and the fastest ways to solve them. We interview you and your team, test other ways of organising the work, and come back with a concrete list of recommendations. Once the problem is solved, we can move you on to Product Development Supervision (S-005) and Product Development Quality Control (C-002).
- The real blockers found fast, by fresh eyes.
- Better ways of organising the work, tested not guessed.
- A concrete list of recommendations to act on.
- A clear path out of the impasse.
A bounded, phased engagement. Each bar below is proportional to its estimated duration on a shared calendar.
Talk to you and the team to gather the full picture.
Find the blockers and test other ways of working.
Hand over the prioritised list of fixes.
Concrete artefacts you keep — delivered in editable, open formats your team owns.
Blocker Analysis
The problems and blockers slowing development, identified.
AnalysisRecommendations
A concrete list of fixes and process changes.
ListNext-Step Plan
Where to go once the impasse clears.
Plan
The edges of this engagement, and what we’ll need from you to run it.
- Implementing the recommendations for you.
- Ongoing development leadership (that's S-005).
- Replacing or hiring team members.
- Guarantees of a specific velocity increase.
- A product whose development has stalled.
- Access to the team for interviews.
- Honesty about the current process and blockers.
- Willingness to try new ways of working.
Fixed-scope and outcome-priced — one agreed figure for a defined set of deliverables, with no hourly billing.
Per sprint — Small $4,200 to Large $10,800 by scope.
- Fixed scope, agreed before we start — no open-ended hourly billing.
- One figure covers the full set of deliverables listed alongside.
- The number only moves with system complexity, and only by agreement.
- Blocker Analysis
- Recommendations
- Next-Step Plan
Answers to the questions we hear most about this engagement.
How long is the sprint?
Short by design — long enough to interview the team, diagnose the blockers and test alternatives, then hand over recommendations.
Do you fix the blockers too?
This engagement finds and prioritises them. Acting on them can continue into Product Development Supervision (S-005) or Quality Control (C-002).
How is it priced?
Per sprint — from $4,200 to $10,800 depending on the size of the team and product.
What if we don't know what's wrong?
That's the point — the sprint exists to find the problems you can't see from inside the loop.