Services
For Product Managers and Leaders
You’re building or growing a product organisation and figuring our ways of working, growth frameworks and cross-functional relationships?
You are new to product management? Or you need to brainstorm with a more experienced peer?
Product Manager vs Product Owner vs Product Lead vs … many other similar roles have something very specific in common. It’s not just that they have “product” in the title but that they face the exact same challenges - process, alignment, applying a product mindset, commercial success, keeping stakeholders happy and many others.
Let’s discuss what others are doing, how you can best build on your and your team’s skills, how to align with stakeholders, what may work best for you and how you can inspire your team further.
For Entrepreneurs and Startup Founders
Even experienced entrepreneurs need someone with a wider perspective to bounce ideas with. That is even more powerful with someone who has not only lived through building successful startups and new products, but has also worked with a large number of teams and companies consulting about best practices and finding what works best for them.
Do you need to validate your ideas with someone experienced and get further advice? Let’s talk product strategy. Let’s discuss what the critical priorities are and what can wait.
You can’t afford a full-time Product Manager yet? Let’s kick off with your team, set the right process and get things running.
Unsure what people you need? Let’s talk about how you can best setup and manage a stellar team.
For Technical and/or Product teams
Development teams are often segregated from “the business” or the wider product team and stakeholders. Which is inexplicable as they usually are the key cog in the machine building product value for our customers.
Whether you realise it or not, the most common issues teams have are around efficiency, culture and communication - both within the team and with other stakeholders.
It’s never too late to make a good team great. Let’s talk through any challenges you have with operations, strategy, or with stakeholder and other parties. Let’s go through the tactics of what processes may be best for you. Let’s find ways to replicate what works great for your team.
For Young Professionals
A lot of the difficulties young people face are related not only to the nature of them being inexperienced yet, but also because most of their education has been focused on theory, general principles and ideal ways of working.
The “real world” however can be different and a lot of it is about compromising, prioritising, managing your time and effort differently and often even about managing your personal life, goals and emotions!
New to the 9-6 routine? Switching careers or industry? Jobhunting or struggling to see what’s best for you or to manage your time? The team dynamics and processes are not what you expected?
Want to sharpen your skills and develop your career? Let’s talk.
For Everyone
You may want to explore new ways to approach a certain challenge, look for opportunities for networking and introductions to people who may help you, sharpen your own personal and professional skills, ask for advice on a problem or even get a review on an existing product.
You may need workshops or alignment sessions for a newly formed team to ensure they will be your A-Team.
Both experienced leaders and people new to a given environment need brainstorming with a peer.
Let’s catch up.
Our Approach
Lead by experience, the Practice Makes Product approach to every engagement is always unique. Depending on your challenges and goals, on the size of your team, on your budget and many other things, we will come up with a couple of suggested approaches that can work for your use case. You then decide the best fit!
Our involvement always focuses on alignment, key priorities and communication, and will help you define a process that really works. A lot of what we do involves working with you on both long-term strategy and short-term planning. Practice Makes Product uses a full product toolset of approaches and practices but helps you pick what is most relevant for you at the time. We help you lead a team driven by a product mindset and create and nurture a culture of innovation, camaraderie and efficiency!
Based on the selected approach, we will work directly with you but may also get involved in some of your team meetings or speak to other members of your team or stakeholders. One-on-one coaching and mentoring is usually structured as a set of regular video calls over a period of time and often involves independent tasks as part of your daily activities as well.
In all cases, Practice Makes Product would always include a level of discovery at first and will then define and help you implement the best approaches to get the best out of your team and the environment you’re in.