Product Management
At Revelry, Product Management plays a critical role in helping deliver custom software that supports business success. Charged with directing priorities, ensuring product priorities remain a part of the vision, and keeping projects running smoothly and efficiently, our PMs are pretty amazing. They share some of what they know in the blog posts below.
To Refactor or Reengineer Your Software? Our Approach to Decision-Making
In software development, deciding when and what to refactor or reengineer is an important decision. Refactoring involves making small, incremental changes to your code…
Successfully Balancing Technical Debt with New Functionality
Balancing technical debt (a.k.a. code debt) with new functionality is a common challenge in software development. It requires strategic planning, thoughtful decision-making, and clear,…
Transforming Product Management: Leveraging AI to Address Common Challenges
Imagine being the captain of a ship, navigating turbulent waters and ever-changing weather conditions. This analogy perfectly describes the daily life of a product…
Balancing Value and Urgency in Product Development
In the world of software / product development, managing priorities can feel like a perpetual tug-of-war. On one side, we have urgency: planned deadlines,…
Developer, Manage Thyself: How to Help Your Product Manager
Here are 8 things Developers can do to balance the effort of communication across entire project sprints.
Teaching Product Management Through Interactions and Conversations
I started my tech career more than 10 years ago. Growing up, did I dream of being a Product Manager? No. (I didn’t even…
The Importance of a Strong PM + Engineering Relationship
In custom software development, a close relationship between Product Management (PM) and Engineering is critical, as it supports alignment on priorities and promises, and…
Gamification in Product Development: Leveling Up Your Innovation
The Name of the Game: User Engagement In product development, user engagement is the name of the game. With an ever-increasing number of distractions…
8 Ways to Create Business Buy-In for Your Product Idea
As businesses across most industries look to technology to streamline operations, improve the customer experience, and drive revenue growth, alignment between the business office…
Product Management vs. Project Management: What’s the Difference?
Product management and project management are important roles in software development, but they are often mistaken for being one and the same. The truth…
Build vs. Buy: Deciding What’s Best for Your Business
Should you build the software your business needs in-house or buy it from a third party (aka off the shelf)? It’s an important question…
Why You Need a Product Roadmap: 5 Crucial Benefits
Behind every great product, there’s a solid plan of action. And even if things don’t always go as expected, it helps to have a…
Getting Your Product to Market Fast: Two Approaches to Support
In the world of software product development, unexpected problems are par for the course. Deadlines shift. Projects become more complex than anticipated. Systems crash….
Why Your Team Needs a Product Manager
At Revelry, we like to think of our product managers as both the conductor and the orchestrator – directing priorities and ensuring those priorities…
Building Software is Like Creating a Theatre Production
As a person who is new to coding, I like to try to find parallels for things that are more familiar to me. Since…