It’s a well known Silicon Valley strategy to be “product led” and “community led” when it comes to building the world's best products. At RoboShadow, we have a world class software development capability. Our pedigree comes from years in investment banking, where we learned to “cloud whisper” microservices technology. Building and releasing world class-tech is a comfortable place for us.
Product managers, on the other hand, we are not. Thankfully, it seems our user community provides just the right amount of product feedback and encouragement. So this is our official announcement that we are officially stepping down as product managers!
We will continue to do what we do best, and ensure the product is secure, available and integrated at a data level. But when it comes to the roadmap (What features to build, where buttons should go, what bloat to strip out) we’re relying on all of you. From here on, we’re officially community-led on the product front.
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How we’ll use Crowdsourced Product Management at RoboShadow:
- Alpha: We will put the technology together in a useable, secure, and basic form for users to test with some common-sense caution.
- Beta: We will polish the technology based on feedback, and release to a wider audience ready for further feedback.
- Production: Once it's gone through 3 - 4 cycles of user feedback, we will promote as a production release.
- This probably sounds like a “normal thing” tech teams do, and you're not wrong! The key difference to us is that we are doing it in public. Traditional product management functionality often helps mask the shenanigans underneath what’s really happening, which is wonderful but it gets in the way of our call to reduce the cost and complexity of cybersecurity for the world. Thanks to our state of the art DevSecOps microservices platform we now release code daily. This is where we are different to almost all the other platforms out there and its this capability we will obsess about, with support from the users to guide the product management.
As always, please feel free to get in contact with us if you have any questions! hello@roboshadow.com
I’m lucky to have worked in technology all over the world for large multi-national organisations, in recent years I have built technology brands and developed products to help make technology that bit easier for people to grasp and manage. By day I run tech businesses, by night (as soon as the kids have gone to bed) I write code and I love building Cyber Security technology.
