Scrum, backlog management, refinement, you probably already know all about these methods, but what makes someone a really good Product Manager? On a side note: the scrum manual originally uses the term Product Owner, but many companies use the term Product Manager as they fill this position with a broader…

A while ago I decided as a hobby project to improve the User Experience of PSprices.com. I love their price monitoring website, but the UX is quite a mess. I tried to keep the design and branding unchanged, and only focused on improving the UX. Normally I would never make…

It’s a great time to make a mobile app. There are more technical options to build one than ever before. Giving newcomers an actual late-mover-advantage. In 2017 Q4 we decided at Werkspot to build an app for the service professionals on our marketplace platform. This makes a lot of sense…

Im often surprised by how large companies fail in their international translations. For example Ebay.nl showed some pages in German. nl.Aliexpress.com took 2 years to fix a typo in the title of their website. jira.atlassian.com wrongly translated their order/sort button into ‘Bestellen’ (place an order) instead of ‘Sorteren’. Translation processes and quality problems Companies use…

Everybody has ideas, but they aren’t always the best ideas to work on. When I first joined Werkspot.nl I thought it was a simple marketplace with consumers and craftsmen. I thought I could quickly find good ideas to improve the product. In reality, it took me at least one year…

I work as Product Owner at Werkspot, a home services marketplace which started 9 years ago as a small startup in the south of the Netherlands. After a reboot of the company 3.5 years ago and re-location to Amsterdam, the company reached the phase of a scaleup. …