PORTFOLIO • Management
Remedy Product Studio Cases
Remedy is a company that works in 2 formats: with Startups and companies helping to design and develop solutions to achieve business & product goals.
Remedy keeps Portfolio partners and regular Customers on the list.
Discover how I solved challenges working in Remedy Product Studio as a Director of Product Management & Design.
Remedy keeps Portfolio partners and regular Customers on the list.
Discover how I solved challenges working in Remedy Product Studio as a Director of Product Management & Design.
Global goals
- Change management: Solve current issues in the company through the improvement of culture, methodology and processes
- Build Design Department with scalable approach, with transparent, proactive and supportive culture inside
- Improve teams' efficiency through the improvement of Product Management Dept approach as a Director of Product Management.
Outcome in numbers
from my start of work for the period from July 2021 to June 2022
+130%
Design Team
growth
growth
+36%
Design Team
billability growth
billability growth
+213%
Revenue from
the Design Team growth
the Design Team growth
2
New customers came based on the design feedback and recommendations from happy clients
Challenges list
The first thing I had done – I gathered the information and got the needed insights about company and product challenges.
Based on figured-out information, I created the following list of challenges on the way to product improvements conduction through my Director of Product & Design competencies and responsibility areas.
A couple of solutions require me to work out of my responsibility area to deliver additional value for company process efficiency and achieve strategical goals collaboratively with other departments.
Based on figured-out information, I created the following list of challenges on the way to product improvements conduction through my Director of Product & Design competencies and responsibility areas.
A couple of solutions require me to work out of my responsibility area to deliver additional value for company process efficiency and achieve strategical goals collaboratively with other departments.
Challenge 1
From the start: Increase value from the Design
The main challenge was the low seniority of the Design Team, and the absence of culture and practice of improving skills and optimizing work approaches.
That was the reason for the low financial sufficiency from design services for the company.
Solution:
In order to reduce the costs of the company when renewing people in the team and motivate employees to stay in the company longer, I conducted research among employees and implemented tools within the company that positively influenced the HR brand and retention of people in the team.
What was done:
That was the reason for the low financial sufficiency from design services for the company.
Solution:
In order to reduce the costs of the company when renewing people in the team and motivate employees to stay in the company longer, I conducted research among employees and implemented tools within the company that positively influenced the HR brand and retention of people in the team.
What was done:
- Created a competency matrix for the design department.
- Based on the competency matrix, a knowledge and career management system for designers has been developed and implemented.
- Knowledge-sharing practices have been introduced and implemented in the design department.
Challenge 2
From the start: The risk of losing Clients
There were 2 cases prevented by me:
Solution:
I had to apply my leadership and personal skills to solve the challenge without aggravating.
To prevent the problem from recurring, I initiated the following actions:
- A Customer became attached to our employee. After the employee's contract termination there was a risk of losing the Customer.
- The team that worked with the Customer quit entirely and planned to take the Customer away.
Solution:
I had to apply my leadership and personal skills to solve the challenge without aggravating.
To prevent the problem from recurring, I initiated the following actions:
- Creation of a standard and a checklist for the work of Account Managers in the company.
- The introduction of mandatory practices for monitoring the client's status by the product manager and account manager assigned to projects.
- Escalated the need to create and sign a non-poaching agreement and a non-disclosure agreement with all employees of the company (up to this point, these agreements were signed by a couple of individual employees of the company).
Challenge 3
People replacement in project teams
Traditionally, project teams were formed for a specific Customer. As far as each Customer works with their own unique approach and processes, this affected the difficulty of scaling and replacing people in teams.
Customers became attached to the personas in the teams and felt stressed when discussing the possibility of replacing a member of their team.
Solution:
I initiated and implemented with the help of my team the framework for Design and Product Management departments based on best practices. This framework takes into account the peculiarities of approaches to different types of customers, projects, domains, and the style of working with them.
The implementation of the framework required special attention and control, as it was a significant qualitative change in the company's culture.
This approach made working with customers predictable, and the replacement of people in teams less painful for both customers and the company.
Customers became attached to the personas in the teams and felt stressed when discussing the possibility of replacing a member of their team.
Solution:
I initiated and implemented with the help of my team the framework for Design and Product Management departments based on best practices. This framework takes into account the peculiarities of approaches to different types of customers, projects, domains, and the style of working with them.
The implementation of the framework required special attention and control, as it was a significant qualitative change in the company's culture.
This approach made working with customers predictable, and the replacement of people in teams less painful for both customers and the company.
Challenge 4
Self-sustaining process in the Design Department
Remedy's management asked me to solve a number of pressing problems in the Product Management department taking on the additional role of Product Management Director, and I agreed. At the same time, the Design department remained with me.
In order for the Design department not to lose the progress that has been made during my work, I implemented an approach that helped the department work almost autonomously.
Solution:
I succeed in this task by implementing clear, transparent, matching, and supporting Remedy's working approach:
In order for the Design department not to lose the progress that has been made during my work, I implemented an approach that helped the department work almost autonomously.
Solution:
I succeed in this task by implementing clear, transparent, matching, and supporting Remedy's working approach:
- Team Composition
- Process Automation
- Career development and assessment plan
- Scalable work and mentoring practices
Extras
- Conducted workshops among the specialists of the design department and related departments on the principles of product development.
- Helped to set up effective work in a pressed time on the start of new projects. This solved the problem of the shortest terms reduction and failing the deadlines on Discovery phase.
- Shared with Remedy the list of my own contacts to cover company's need in composing a strong skilled teams asap.
- Studied possible knowledge storage systems and methods of effective knowledge delivery. Set the task of developing the structure of such a system with a reserve for its scaling, formulating strategic points and principles of work.
- I get involved in the discussion and implementation of solutions on methodologies and technologies solving Remedy's problems in order to minimize the time spent on finding solutions by other leaders.
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Andrei Tarasevich
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