Let’s get the definition out of the way: Interim Management is an established practice in which organizations contract a manager to temporarily take over management, mostly to keep course while a permanent replacement is being sought; this can be due to planned absences like sabbaticals or parental leave, or employee…

Freelancers are too expensive! I hear this one quite frequently. Actually, most freelancers probably do. Properly unpacking this entire statement might as well end up in an academic thesis, but since we’re all busy, I’ll focus on one key aspect of its meaning: “I’d rather hire an employee because it’s cheaper and provides more…

In 2016, Maxime Braud (who went on to co-found the product strategy and design collective Mozza) published a piece on Medium titled Why It’s Impossible To Be A Freelance Product Manager. And How I Did It. Sometime in 2018, I stumbled upon this piece while googling “Freelance Product Manager” (it’s…

Getting into freelancing as a Product Manager usually doesn’t just happen ‘en passant’ — in our space, it usually follows some elaborate evaluation of your professional (and/or personal) life’s priorities and at least some upfront groundwork. Accordingly, there’s a spectrum of options to realize this foray, with the extremes being…

In this mini-series, we’ll look at utilization of freelance product managers in different environments; when it makes sense, and — yes, also when it makes less sense. This week: Small and Medium-sized Enterprises!

Remember that prediction that was thrown around in pre-COVID times – something along the lines of “there’s gonna be more freelancers than employees at some point in the future”? To be honest, I also had to pull it up again — this was actually a study by Randstad US, published…

In this mini-series, we’ll look at utilization of freelance product managers in different environments; when it makes sense, and — yes, also when it makes less sense. This week: Startups!

In this mini-series, we’ll look at utilization of freelance product managers in different environments; when it makes sense, and — yes, also when it makes less sense. This week: Enterprise-size companies (i.e. 1000+ employees). Freelancing in Enterprises — A Big Challenge Given that enterprise-size companies are large and powerful, but also slow and inert operations, freelancers are…

Disclaimer: This is not an ad for our services. Really thought we’d be that blunt? Think again! 😉 So you’re (kinda) convinced that you need a freelance product manager? You might’ve read one of our pieces, like How Freelance Product Managers Help you Scale your Product Organization, and thought „Hey – maybe they‘ve got a point!“ You might‘ve worked with a…