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.
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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: Which Decision Is Best for Your Company?
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…
Get Your Software Product to Market Fast: Two Pathways for 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…
Creating a Software Application 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…
Wordle as a Metaphor for the Software Development Process
We at Revelry have a #wordelry channel in Slack where we share our Wordle scores and commiserate about unlucky guesses. It’s a great way…
Why Behavior Driven Development (BDD) Makes User Stories 100% Better
At Revelry, we use BDD for all members of the team — and yes, that team includes our clients — so that everyone is clear about the intended user experience in the final product. Revelry’s flavor of BDD is a process for describing software features that is biased toward user’s actions and the results of those actions.
Why We Care So Much About Sprint Commitments (and we hope you will too)
Sometimes, clients even say “but I don’t care about the commitment.” Firstly, I question whether that is true deep down. It’s hard for me to imagine someone paying a significant amount of money to have a problem solved,and then not caring when that solution ships, or even which parts of the solution ship in which order.