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Understanding The Five Types of Ready
In a board meeting last quarter, as the CTO said to everyone, “We are ready with that program,” I watched the board smile and nod in happiness. Having seen this before, I followed my gut and asked, “Mr. CTO, do you mean, CTO ready? Engineering ready? Product management ready? Conformance, quality, and compliance ready? Or, do you mean customer ready?” At that point, the CTO looked at me and said, “I mean the first one,” and the rest of the board immediately realized that we needed to have a very different discussion for the next half of the meeting.
The lesson to be learned, particularly when working with technical groups and on complicated development programs, is that it is critical to define what level your definition of readiness is in order to know when things are actually ready to be handed from one person to another or to move from one stage to the next. This is one of the fundamental tenets of the early product lifecycle / product management system stages. We can help you solve these types of communication and alignment problems to ensure you really are Ready.
Dr. Kevin Fahey, Founder and CEO of Market Operandi
About the Author:
Kevin Fahey, Ph.D, leads the Market Operandi team in bringing their technical and executive management expertise to deep tech B2B startups and innovation teams at larger organizations, enabling them to scale rapidly while mitigating risks. He and his team also help companies penetrate new markets and optimize for multi-market growth.
Over the past decade, Kevin has used his diverse experience to create MO's proprietary and vetted startup acceleration systems and framework, successfully guiding dozens of startups from their first institutional round of funding to and through their growth rounds.
As CEO of MO, Kevin has steered multiple obscure startups to become award-winning success stories.
Kevin holds a Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering from Stanford University and a B.S. in Physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.