Product Management

Tips for building software for professionals

Professionals are people who are engaged in an activity as a full time occupation. We are all hopefully a professional at something and so we can all benefit from professional grade tools. I buy and appreciate professional grade tools at work and I…

Every software product requires serious investment, commit to keep up or shut it down

Deciding to build and release a new software product means making significant commitments and incurring costs over a life cycle of many years. However, the size and nature of these…

How to balance the functional/ cross-functional team seesaw

If you have a few years experience, you have probably experienced or lead several restructures of your teams and organisation. Perhaps, like mine, your organisational seesaw has swung somewhat violently from being primarily…

Is your team structure hurting your customer experience?

Many software teams adopt cross-functional team structures. I thought we had structured our teams well, but then we discovered a big problem.

What used to happen