Proven expertise

Practical solutions and advice formed from real-world enterprise Product Leadership experience; and hands-on time in most Product office and support roles.

Bespoke approach

Advice and approaches that are right for your organisation - understanding your business, it's values and your priorities are key.

Flexible engagements

Select an engagement model that works for you: contracts from 1 week to 6 months (part or full time); or draw down time as you need it.

Creating, scaling, and maturing product teams for over 14 years

Working closely with product leaders and managers; providing guidance, support and execution capability to take development teams, product management teams, or whole product office organisations to the next stage of their evolution.

Specialising in business to business (b2b) products and services delivered either on-premise, customer-hosted, or SaaS; in particular those aimed at enterprise organisations or those in regulated industries.

Helping to grow, shape, mature or transform your product organisation by assisting you to:

Gain insight of the many challenges that will emerge as product teams grow; and as products gain increased traction in the market.
Make effective decisions about the challenges, including those you may not have foreseen, and determine which are the most urgent to address.
identify, and delivery against, the opportunities for improvement and maturity; both strategically and tactically.

For new or emerging product teams

Whether in start-up business, or as a new initiative within an existing businesses, shaping an effective product team presents many challenges. There are many disciplines and roles you'll need to cover; products to build, release, support and manage, and there'll be finite time, resources and budget.

Product Office Consulting can help:

Advise on the cultural and mindset changes that'll likely challenge the organisation; and prepare you for the challenges you'll face both from within your organisation, but also externally from your customers, prospects and even competitors.
Define your short, medium, and long-term team structure, and help with candidate selection;
Prioritise the capabilities you'll need across the product development, delivery, and product management teams so that together the highest value activities are being carried out effectively.
Identify the development standards, code and product assessments that are required dependent on the products' stage in its evolution, your target market, and whether you will sell into regulated industries of specific different geographic markets.

For existing teams looking to evolve

Looking to take your product team(s) to the next level? Perhaps you're trying to solve common problems such as development throughput, quality, usability, documentation, conformance to standards - all without grinding output to a halt; and at the same time keeping products being released.

Product Office Consulting can help:

Ensure your chosen development methodology is being appropriately implemented (Agile, Waterfall etc); providing advice and practical steps to ensure the conditions are right to support product development.
Guide the split of appropriate disciplines into dedicated roles; and the creation of disciplines you may not know you need; at the right time; and assist with candidate screening and the interview process.
Provide insight into "what good looks like" for all aspects of the product release cycle, particularly when intended for enterprise or regulated clients.
Reconsider the processes that once worked but that need updating to be appropriate for your product team today and going forwards.

Get in touch to talk about how Product Office consulting can help with any scenarios or issues.

Springboard to success with Product Office Consulting

Whether you're a Chief Product (or Technology) Officer, a development manager, a Product Management leader or anyone involved in managing any aspect of software product development - there's many compelling reasons to let Product Office Consulting help you.

Custom advice that will work for your business - getting to know your organisation and your values, and what is important to you.
Unbelievably passionate about shaping well-functioning, and highly motivated, product organisations
Demonstrable success in establishing, growing, and maturing product organisations - backed with hands-on experience of many of the jobs within the team.
Grown teams from single product teams with 3 developers to multi-disciplined portfolio organisations acquired for £1.1bn.
Earned many t-shirts and learnt many lessons - save the hassle and springboard your success.
We provide our services in an IR35 compliant way and will work with you to minimise any compliance risks in relation to this.
Outside IR35 work is preferred; but options for inside IR35 are available.

Let's get started...

To find out more about how Product Office Consulting can help, get in touch to arrange a free, no-obligation, consultation; and we'll take it from there.

Get in touch to arrange a free consultation where we'll discuss your current situation, ambitions and where you think you'd like assistance.
Consider an initial proposal, and decide how you'd like to engage: time-bound contract; hours or days draw down
Agree logistics and practicalities - and let's get on with it.