The Cybernetic Enterprise Assessment
The Cybernetic Enterprise Assessment
A Practical Tool for Building Future-Ready Organizations
About the Book
The Cybernetic Enterprise Assessment is the practical companion to The Cybernetic Enterprise, designed to help organizations translate concepts into measurable transformation.
This book provides a structured framework for assessing organizational maturity across people, process, technology, and data the foundational layers of the cybernetic enterprise model. Through high-level and in-depth assessments, it guides leaders in identifying strengths, uncovering systemic gaps, and defining clear pathways toward adaptability, autonomy, and resilience.
Whether you are a transformation leader, architect, or coach, this book enables evidence-based dialogue and informed decision making. It moves beyond theory, offering a practical instrument to sense your organization’s current state, align on desired outcomes, and build the feedback-driven, AI-augmented enterprise of the future.
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Table of Contents
- Introduction
- Why This Book Exists
- Who Should Use This Book
- What Cybernetic Enterprise Means
- How This Assessment Relates to the Main Book
- Purpose of Assessment
- Key Principles of Assessment
- How to Use and Interpret the Assessment Levels
- How to Apply This Book in Practice
- High Level Assessment
- Organizational Assessment
- Product Development Practices
- Team Autonomy and Collaboration
- Use of Data and Feedback
- Platform Enablement
- AI and Automation Readiness
- Organization Size and Roles
- Product Management
- Product Design
- Engineering
- Product Managership
- Team Structure
- Ownership and Access
- Technology Assessment
- Architecture and Systems
- Technical Debt
- Tooling and Developer Experience
- Automation and AI Enablement
- Infrastructure and Operations
- Security and Compliance
- Observability and Incident Response
- Process Assessment
- End-to-End Flow
- Planning and Prioritization
- Delivery Cadence and Flow Efficiency
- Governance and Compliance
- Feedback and Continuous Improvement
- Adaptability and Responsiveness
- Organizational Assessment
- In-Depth Assessment
- Principles
- Principles Over Process
- Organize for the Flow of Value
- Empowered Teams
- Empowered
- Collaboration
- High-Integrity Commitments
- Outcomes Over Output
- Focus
- Minimize Waste
- Powered by Insights
- Insights
- Insight-Driven Leadership
- Transparency
- Strategic Experimentation
- Embrace Rapid Experimentation
- Test Ideas Responsibly
- Learning Over Failure
- Apply Multiple Horizons of Planning
- Architect for Change and Speed
- Iterative Development
- Cadence and Synchronization
- Shift Left
- Apply a Growth Mindset
- Augment with Intelligence
- Practices
- Technical Practices
- Continuous Delivery Pipeline
- Shift Left on Security
- Shift Left on Testing
- Shift Left on Operations
- Separate Deploy and Release
- Cloud
- Platform
- Data
- APIs
- Process Practices
- Lightweight Change Management Process
- Continuous Improvement
- Lean Management Practices
- Small, Frequent, Uncoupled Releases
- Managing Technical Debt
- Work in Small Batches
- Value Stream Identification
- Value Stream Mapping
- Backlogs
- Portfolio Backlog
- Product Backlog
- Team Backlog
- Sprint Backlog
- Backlog Items
- Epic
- Feature
- User Story
- Non-Functional Requirements (NFRs)
- Sprint Burndown Charts
- Minimum Viable Product (MVP)
- Product Strategy
- Product Vision
- Roadmaps
- UX
- Culture Practices
- Culture
- Employee Satisfaction
- Learning Culture
- Leadership
- Architecture Practices
- Loosely Coupled Architecture
- Modularity
- Architect for the Cybernetic Enterprise
- Architecture Decision Records (ADRs)
- Lean Enterprise Architecture
- Organisational Practices
- CEO
- Team Topologies
- Product Managers
- Product Team
- Product Owner
- Product Designer
- Tech Lead
- Scrum Master
- Engineer
- AI
- Who runs it?
- Distributed Teams
- The Cybernetic Platform
- Technical Practices
- Principles
- High Level Assessment
- Introduction
- Appendix
- Behind the Book
- Author Biography
- Behind the Book
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