Cultivate

Epic O2

Autonomous product organisation

A small organisation holds product, evaluation and delivery roles and maintains a decision record across iterations.

Purpose

It can commission work, evaluate results and revise priorities without owning unlimited authority.

Current status

Proposed. The website documents the target organisation; it does not claim one is already operating.

Milestones

Proposed

Product organisation charter exists

The organisation has a mission, budget, operating rules, evaluator role and decision log before it receives delegated product work.

Depends on: O1-M1, P1-M1

Evidence

Verified

Existing narrative and capability roadmap Google Doc

Read through an authorised Google Drive connector and restructured into site pages rather than copied wholesale. The source document link is not published.

Risks and open questions

Risks

  • The organisation can optimise its own survival rather than the mission.
  • Independent evaluation can collapse into self-review.

Open questions

  • Who reviews the evaluator?
  • What makes the organisation worth maintaining after one experiment?

Linked Wardley components

  • Autonomous product organisations
  • Independent evaluation
  • Organisational coordination
  • Identity and authority
  • Resource accounting

Next steps

  • Test the smallest viable organisation around one approved experiment.