Solution case study
StackScore
Technology maturity assessment product
A product experience for assessing technology maturity, prioritizing recommendations, and presenting roadmaps and executive report narratives using sanitized sample assessments.
- Commercial product
- consulting-tool
- technology-governance
- assessment
- product-strategy
Executive summary
StackScore is a technology maturity product packaged as a portfolio export with executive dashboard, maturity profile, recommendations workspace, roadmap, and report previews.
All assessment and client contexts in the export are fictional.
The product story focuses on making technology evaluation and recommended next steps consistent enough for consulting and leadership use.
Build and iteration work used Bob Skills to keep product planning, quality gates, and architecture conventions aligned with the broader delivery portfolio.
The trigger
Assessment work needed a product path from scoring to recommendations and executive-facing narrative.
The business problem
Without a shared model, maturity evaluation and recommendations drift between spreadsheets, slides, and personal method.
Leaders receive inconsistent artifact quality and weak follow-through.
Who was affected
- Consultants and advisors running technology assessments
- Business and technology leaders consuming recommendations
- Teams turning roadmap phases into work
Why the previous process fell short
Ad hoc score sheets and slide assembly can capture findings, but they rarely produce a reusable, coherent assessment product system.
My contribution
- Product vision for maturity assessment and advisory artifacts
- Requirements for scoring presentation and recommendation workflow
- Prioritization of dashboard, profile, recommendations, roadmap, and report surfaces
- Data-model planning for portable preview packages
- AI-assisted implementation with review of product behavior
Product and workflow decisions
- Lead with executive score context before deep pillar detail
- Keep recommendations filterable for practical planning work
- Treat roadmap and report as first-class outputs of assessment
Why development was prioritized in that order
Establish score and profile clarity first, then recommendations, then roadmap and report packaging that reuse the same assessment story.
Core capabilities
- Executive maturity dashboard
- Technology maturity profile
- Recommendations workspace
- Technology roadmap view
- Executive report narrative
Interactive product previews
The following modules demonstrate product behavior with sanitized mock data only. They are not connected to production systems.
Executive dashboard
Sample maturity overview with priorities and summary metrics.
Scroll inside to explore the product surface
Lumen Harbor Group
ActiveExecutive Dashboard
Technology maturity, priorities, and progress at a glance.
StackScore
68
54 prior · +14 · Stabilizing
StackScore
68
Stabilizing maturity
Period Change
+14
Since prior review
Recommendations Closed
7
This review cycle
Open High Priority
4
Needs attention
Projects In Progress
3
On plan
Roadmap Progress
42%
Phase 2 underway
Cybersecurity
61
Identity and endpoint controls improved, perimeter hardening remains.
Infrastructure
66
Monitoring coverage expanded. Segmentation still incomplete.
Business Continuity
58
Backup jobs validated. Restore testing cadence is next.
Applications and Data
72
Collaboration suite healthy. Access governance needs refinement.
Complete endpoint enrollment
Validate disaster recovery runbooks
Close privilege review findings
Interactive demo uses static fictional data only. No production systems are connected. On small screens, scroll horizontally inside the frame for full product chrome.
Technology maturity profile
Pillar scoring presentation from fictional assessment data.
Scroll inside to explore the product surface
Current score
68
Projected score
92
Expected improvement
+24
Maturity level
Stabilizing
Today
61
Projected
90
Today
66
Projected
88
Today
58
Projected
86
Today
70
Projected
85
Today
72
Projected
90
Today
74
Projected
92
Interactive demo uses static fictional data only. No production systems are connected. On small screens, scroll horizontally inside the frame for full product chrome.
Recommendations workspace
Interactive recommendations list with filters over mock recommendations.
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Lumen Harbor Group
ActiveRecommendations
Client level improvement opportunities across assessments.
6 recommendations
9 included · Timeline 6 months
Implement centralized endpoint management
CriticalWhy this matters
Devices are managed inconsistently, which increases support effort and security gaps.
- Business impact
- A single standard reduces preventable risk and shortens time to resolution.
- Expected outcome
- Company devices enrolled with patching and encryption baselines.
- Maturity improvement
- +8 points
- Suggested service
- Managed Endpoint Platform
Enable MFA for privileged accounts
CriticalWhy this matters
Privileged accounts without MFA remain a primary takeover path.
- Business impact
- Protects email, finance systems, and administrative tooling.
- Expected outcome
- MFA required for administrators and elevated roles.
- Maturity improvement
- +7 points
- Suggested service
- Identity Hardening
Modernize backup and recovery testing
HighWhy this matters
Untested backups create false confidence during outages.
- Business impact
- Verified recovery protects operations after disruption.
- Expected outcome
- Documented recovery tests on a quarterly cadence.
- Maturity improvement
- +6 points
- Suggested service
- Backup Validation
Harden collaboration security baseline
HighWhy this matters
Email and file sharing remain common entry points for phishing.
- Business impact
- Lowers successful phishing and accidental data exposure risk.
- Expected outcome
- Security defaults and anti phishing controls applied.
- Maturity improvement
- +5 points
- Suggested service
- Collaboration Security Baseline
Establish quarterly technology reviews
MediumWhy this matters
Without a recurring cadence, priorities drift and risk accumulates.
- Business impact
- Keeps technology investment aligned to business outcomes.
- Expected outcome
- Scheduled reviews with score and roadmap tracking.
- Maturity improvement
- +4 points
- Suggested service
- Strategic Review Cadence
Improve patch management discipline
HighWhy this matters
Inconsistent patching leaves known vulnerabilities open longer.
- Business impact
- Reduces exploit risk and stabilizes production systems.
- Expected outcome
- Defined windows, reporting, and exception handling.
- Maturity improvement
- +5 points
- Suggested service
- Managed Patch Operations
Interactive demo uses static fictional data only. No production systems are connected. On small screens, scroll horizontally inside the frame for full product chrome.
Technology roadmap
Phased roadmap layout using portfolio demo data.
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Phase outcomes
- Privileged MFA enforced
- Endpoint detection active
- Backup restore validation underway
Initiatives
Enable MFA for privileged accounts
Cybersecurity
Implement centralized endpoint management
Infrastructure
Modernize backup and recovery testing
Business Continuity
Phase outcomes
- Managed device baseline complete
- Collaboration security baseline applied
- Patch windows adopted
Initiatives
Harden collaboration security baseline
Cybersecurity
Improve patch management discipline
Cybersecurity
Phase outcomes
- Quarterly technology reviews scheduled
- Decision ownership clarified
- Score tracking visible to leadership
Initiatives
Establish quarterly technology reviews
Strategy and Governance
Interactive demo uses static fictional data only. No production systems are connected. On small screens, scroll horizontally inside the frame for full product chrome.
Architecture and system flow
Constraints and tradeoffs
- Demo organizations and scores are fictional
- Export contains no live assessment services
Business impact
Concrete project facts
Lessons learned
- Assessment products need a clear decision path after the score
- Recommendations work when they can be filtered and planned, not only listed
- Portable exports force modular product thinking
Current status
Portfolio export integrated for interactive demonstration.
Future roadmap
- Add approved product narrative milestones when available
- Optional architecture diagram once public-safe systems views exist
Technology evidence
Supporting implementation context for the product story above.
- React product UI
- Typed assessment data models
- Score presentation utilities
- Static portfolio export package
Related Bobby Playbook principles
- Technology evaluation framework
Assessment should unlock decisions, not just scores
- Product philosophy
Encode advisory workflow as product logic
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