Vertical Velocity Studio
The cards and table mats from the book Vertical Velocity, ready for your next workshop. Fill them in as a team, from a laptop or a phone, and the studio works out what the card asks for.
From the table to the trend line
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Start a team
No sign-up. Your team gets its own private link: bookmark it and share it with your team.
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Fill in a card together
The studio does the arithmetic the printed card asks for. Westrum answers stay anonymous.
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Repeat it
The cards tell you to come back: DORA every month, Westrum in three months. Every entry is kept, so you can see the change.
Start your team
Give it the name your team uses. You'll get a private link to everything your team fills in.
The cards, the mats and the workbook
Each one has the number of its worksheet in the course workbook. The color on the left is the part of the book it comes from.
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Mat · Lesson 0–1
Your silo diagnosis
Pick one feature you shipped recently that felt slow. Answer for that feature, not for your organization in general.
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Card · Lesson 2
Cost of Delay calculator
Turn a queue into money
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Card · Lesson 4
Feature team maturity self-assessment
Score each question from 1 (never) to 5 (always)
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Mat · Lesson 5
Value stream mapping workshop
Map the real path of one feature, from the first idea to production. Not the ideal path: the real one.
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Workbook · Lesson 6
Should you build feature teams now?
Tick any condition that describes you today
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Workbook · Lesson 6
Manager conversation scripts
Adapt the words; keep the structure
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Card · Lesson 7
Non-happy path planner
Plan the failures before you write the code
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Card · Lesson 9
Definition of Done checklist
A slice isn't done until every box is ticked
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Card · Lesson 12
DORA metrics calculator
Your pod's speed and stability, from 30 days of data
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Card · Lesson 12
Westrum culture check
How does your culture handle information?
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Workbook · Lesson 14
Quarterly pod health audit
A diagnostic, not a performance review
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Workbook · Lesson 14
Improvement tax tracker
10–20% of every sprint for improvement work, tracked like features; the PO cannot overrule it
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Card · Lesson 14
Warning signs and promotion criteria
Regression creeps back: intervene immediately
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Workbook · Lesson 14
Annual sustaining checklist
Once a year: is your feature team organization still healthy?
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Card · Bonus lesson
AI prompt library and safety checklist
Starting points only: never use the output without review
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