The Delivery Maturity Playbook

Your company is not broken.
It just lost its rhythm.

What worked at 5 people breaks at 15. What worked at 15 shatters at 30. That slowdown you feel is not a people problem or a process problem. It is a rhythm problem. And it is fixable.

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Recognise any of these?

Every scaling team has a dysfunction pattern. Most teams just do not have a name for it yet.

Where visibility goes to die.

Thousands of tickets. Dozens of epics. Nobody can tell you what is happening this week.

This pattern is detectable in the assessment

The pattern nobody talks about

It is not a people problem.
It is a physics problem.

5→15

The First Break

Communication that was ambient becomes scattered. Ownership blurs. Meetings multiply.

15→30

The Fracture

Decision latency spikes. Context splits. Dependencies multiply. Projects slip from invisible friction.

30→50+

The Danger Zone

Every decision routes through the founder. Culture drifts. Early sharpness fades into noise.

“The real problem is structural: your company grew, but the operating rhythm did not.”

— From Adulting the Organisation by Joe Robens

See what you will get

This is what a real result looks like

A 28-person SaaS company. Strong engineering, good people, delivery still feels sluggish. Toggle between views to see what changes when the whole team weighs in.

Sample · 28 people · SaaS · Series A

13.6
out of 25Moderate Rhythm — Some Drift
RhythmAlignmentDelivery FlowDecision VelocityEnergy Health
♫ Rhythm
3.6
⊕ Alignment
2.1
→ Delivery Flow
3.2
⚡ Decision Velocity
1.8
◉ Energy Health
2.9

⚡ Fix This First — Decision Velocity (1.8)

Decisions are bottlenecking on a single person. Clarify decision ownership and make escalation culturally safe.

Dysfunction Patterns Detected

The Monday Surprise

Sprint goals are not surviving first contact with leadership.

The Friday Ambush

Decisions bottleneck then someone checks in at end of week.

This is a sample.

What would your team score?

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The Operating System

RhythmOS: a way of thinking, not a framework

Enough structure to scale. Enough freedom to stay creative. The assessment measures how well these layers work in your organisation.

Vision & Bets

Where energy is invested

Leadership

Milestones

Outcomes the company commits to

Quarterly

Projects

Delivery containers that land milestones

Teams

Sprints

Short loops that surface progress and risk

Bi-weekly

Weekly Outcomes

The atomic unit of accountability

Weekly

Tasks

Units of work — never a performance measure

Daily

Better with your team

Do not believe your own score?
Good. Ask your team.

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You take it

Score your organisation across five dimensions. Results save against your email domain.

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Invite 4+ colleagues

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Unlock the Team Report

See dimension averages, variance, and where leadership and teams disagree.
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Joe Robens

Fractional CPO · Delivery Architect · Author

25+ years inside organisations of every size — from tiny teams to enterprise. Broadcasting, gaming, fintech, insurance, web3.

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