A New Landscape for Product Roadmapping

LONDON, UK — 28th July 2016

SharpCloud Software Ltd, a visual communication and collaboration software company, and Digital Works Consulting (DWC), a boutique consultancy specialising in helping improve clients’ digital maturity, today announced that they were partnering to meet the increasing demand for information visualization, collaboration and dynamic reporting around Product Roadmapping.

Two steps to a better roadmap

SharpCloud and DWC offer businesses best-in-class process around digital tools for Product Roadmapping along with comprehensive visualization and information exploration. Facilitated roadmapping workshops are a powerful first step to build a development route to kick start product development. DWC will help your team build a shared vision and understanding of your organization’s future by refining and prioritizing Product Roadmaps while SharpCloud software provides the most agile way available for teams to visually collaborate, co-create and present roadmaps.

“We’re really pleased to be partnering with Digital Works Consulting around Product Management. The company’s experience in running effective workshops around data-rich dynamic roadmaps is an invaluable way to build credibility, consensus, and better team engagement. By using SharpCloud to communicate the ‘big picture’, customers will be more productive and efficient by keeping the content and knowledge alive and useful after the workshop ends.” said Sarim Khan, Co-founder, SharpCloud Software.

Collaboration is key

SharpCloud is an agile way for teams to visually collaborate and dynamically present and report meaningful insights to stakeholders. SharpCloud was created to help businesses speed-up and streamline the process of building and maintaining roadmaps by capturing, visualizing and communicating complex information in a dynamic SharpCloud story. It’s an innovative way to align business functions with corporate strategy, keeping insight from your roadmapping workshops in focus, not locked away and lost in a static document.

“It’s challenging for businesses to maintain a valid plan ahead and cope with market change without too many ‘special’ strategy and planning meetings. Roadmapping workshops can kick start a whole new way of thinking. The SharpCloud platform helps by providing multi-party communication of complex issues and supports collaboration to address shifting circumstances. By creating a digital document with living content, knowledge can be shared and explored, decisions are highlighted and the roadmap is kept alive, relevant and valuable.” said Lawrence De’Ath, Senior Partner, DWC

Work at a pace to keep up

Product Managers need to operate dynamically in shifting landscapes. Technologies, teams and the business landscape can all change such that both risk and new business opportunities emerge unexpectedly. To keep up, organizations need to update and communicate their strategy, product development and roadmaps at suitable pace. Too often information is locked away in a variety of data sources, such as presentations, supporting narrative or linear conversations. SharpCloud “stories” bring this business information together visually and provide cross-platform, as well as cross-device, access for all stakeholders.

Native on Microsoft Surface Hub and touch enabled (for all devices), SharpCloud provides the perfect business solution for digital roadmapping workshops, sharing content, capturing ideas, feedback and working together as a team, integrating everyone into the collaboration. Using the SharpCloud visualization software, users can quickly obtain the information they need, detect key data exceptions, explore topics in detail and communicate directly with their related business teams.

To find out more about our joint solution, register HERE for Lawrence De’Ath’s webinar on Wednesday 19th October — ‘How to integrate live face to face workshops with SharpCloud’

About SharpCloud Software

SharpCloud is visual storytelling and social collaboration software for business. SharpCloud is different to traditional data visualisation tools, each SharpCloud story combines structured data — spreadsheet or automated feeds — and unstructured collateral — docs, videos, ppt, SharePoint docs — with the ability to visualise time and relationships across your business process. SharpCloud will disrupt linear discussions on strategic topics based on slide-decks, spreadsheets and email.

Strategic topic-based collaboration use-cases include: Project & Investment Portfolios, Risk Management, Digital Workshops, Public Collaboration (Innovation), Roadmapping (Strategy, IT, R&D, NPD)

Example SharpCloud stories here: https://my.sharpcloud.com/public

SharpCloud Overview video: https://youtu.be/_R2fRtU57kA

Sign up for a FREE trial: https://my.sharpcloud.com/signup

Visit www.sharpcloud.com, contact us at hello@sharpcloud.com, or call: London: +44 (0)203 764 8512

About DWC

Digital Works Consulting is a boutique consulting and interim firm that helps businesses grow and adapt to the speed and complexity of modern business.

DWC focus on growth and transformation by providing expertise and experience from team members typically with 15 years+ experience at senior level, deploying real-world, practical approaches rather than purely academic knowledge.

The DWC Product and Technology practice helps businesses with development success — either in final products or the use of digital to improve internal working and external services.

DWC provides the following skills and experience:

* Strategy & Insight, Product, Project & Technology, , and Business Acceleration.

* Sector expertise in payments, e-commerce, telecoms, media and entertainment, social media, FMCG, and various digital technical solution areas.

* A core team of well-thought-of and successful digital veterans, augmented by a strong network of partner companies and sub-contractors. Not only offering flexibility but also the ability to bring the right skills to bear at the right time for a given task.

* DWC has successful working relationships with clients such as MasterCard, Kalixa, eBay, Travelodge, PayPal, CPP, Trinity Mirror, Anglian Water, Virgin Media, Experian and Jaguar Land Rover.

* Find us at www.digitalworksconsulting.com