Stop Building Features Nobody Wants.
Start Delivering Products Customers Love.
Transform your enterprise software development with the Compass Product Operating Model™ - the comprehensive approach that aligns Strategy, Discovery, and Delivery around customer value.
Trusted by 15+ enterprise software firms in healthcare, fintech, automotive & real estate
Is Your Software Organization Stuck?
Your teams are working hard, but the results aren't there. Slow, rigid project-based processes prevent rapid feedback cycles and burn out your employees. Meanwhile, you're building features customers don't love, which wastes resources and misses market opportunities.
Sound familiar?
You are not alone.
Introducing The Compass Product Operating Model™
Unlike rigid agile frameworks, the Compass Product Operating Model™ (CPOM) is easily customized to your corporate environment. Whether you are a fast-growing startup or an established enterprise, your product leaders will benefit from the CPOM to diagnose areas of improvement and ensure alignment with customer and organizational needs.
The Compass Product Operating Model™ is a comprehensive, practical guide that integrates:
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Product Principles - Preparing the organization to adapt a product-led approach
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Product Strategy - Deciding which are the most important problems the company should solve
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Product Discovery - Validate problems that customers actually have and real market opportunities that exist
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Product Delivery - Build valuation solutions that solve real problems and which customers love to use
How We Serve Our Clients
Whether you're transforming an enterprise, advancing your product career, or need senior product leadership on demand, we have a service designed for your specific needs.
Enterprise Product Transformations
Large enterprises face unique scaling challenges as they grow, from coordinating multiple teams to implementing frameworks like SAFe, while transforming entire divisions from project-based to product-led approaches. We partner with enterprise leadership to guide comprehensive transformations that address strategy, discovery, and delivery across your organization. Whether you're modernizing legacy processes, integrating AI capabilities into your product development, or aligning multiple value streams around customer outcomes, we provide the expertise and hands-on coaching to make transformation stick. Our approach is customized to your corporate environment, ensuring practical implementation rather than theoretical ideals.
Product Manager Coaching
Individual product managers hire us directly to accelerate their careers and modernize their skills for today's product landscape. Through one-on-one coaching sessions, we help you lead effectively within a product operating model, master design thinking approaches, navigate AI integration in product development, and develop the strategic skills that separate senior practitioners from true product leaders. Whether you're looking to earn a promotion, transition into product leadership, or simply build better products at your current organization, our coaching provides personalized guidance tailored to your specific career goals and challenges.
Fractional CPO Consulting
Small-to-medium businesses often need senior product leadership but aren't ready for a full-time Chief Product Officer. We step in as your fractional CPO to guide product transformations or launch new product initiatives with clarity and confidence. Our hands-on approach helps you establish a compelling product vision and strategy, implement rigorous discovery practices to validate customer needs, and avoid the costly mistake of building products nobody wants. Whether you're starting a new product line or transforming how your organization builds and ships software, we provide the executive-level product expertise you need, when you need it.
Recent Clients
Our Principal
With 20+ years of leading enterprise software development and product management across organizations of all sizes, Steven Granese bridges the gap between what motivates development teams and what executives need for strategy and business models.
He founded Compass Productivity and created the Compass Product Operating model with one goal in mind - to help software teams to stop shipping features that went unused and help them deliver products that customers truly love.
Why Work with Compass Productivity?
Most agile consultants focus narrowly on delivery practices, leaving strategy and discovery as afterthoughts. The result? Teams that move faster in the wrong direction. At Compass Productivity, we take a fundamentally different approach. We've spent 20+ years learning what actually works in real corporate environments, not what sounds good in theory. Our Compass Product Operating Model integrates the complete picture of what it takes to build products customers love, and we customize it to fit your organization's reality.
Here's what sets us apart:
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