Fractional product manager
For teams where the founder is still the product manager. Usually the team has plenty of ideas about what to build, and what's missing is someone deciding what not to build.
Product
What you get.
- Customer interviews your team takes part in, instead of reading a summary afterwards
- A roadmap that writes down each bet and the reasoning behind it
- PRDs and user stories your engineers can build from
- A way of prioritising your team can keep using without us
Proof
Who it's for
Software companies with five to thirty engineers where the founder still makes every product call and a full-time product hire doesn't fit yet.
More on who this suits
Software companies with five to thirty engineers where the founder makes every product call, and that aren't ready for a full-time product hire yet or aren't sure what that person should do.
What's included
Customer interviews
Your team sits in on the interviews instead of reading a summary afterwards, so the people building the product hear customers directly.
A roadmap with reasons
We write down each bet and the reasoning behind it, so when plans change, it's because someone decided to change them.
PRDs and user stories
Documents your engineers can build from, including what's out of scope.
A way to prioritise without usA method your team keeps using when we're not around.
A way of prioritising that your team can keep using when we're not around. We want you to need us less over time.
How we work
We price it on scope once the first call has given us a sense of the work. We start by listening, with interviews and a review of what's already planned, before changing anything.
Our product experience comes from working on Frappe CRM, Frappe HR and Insights at Frappe, and from building Frappe Sheets.
Common mistakes we help you avoid
A roadmap in the order requests arrived
A roadmap that's just a list of customer requests in the order they came in.
Specs written after the build
Specs written after the build, describing what already shipped.
Interviews summarised into unread slides
Interviews summarised into slides nobody on the engineering team reads.
A product manager the team works around
A product manager the team learns to work around.
Questions buyers actually ask.
The same work a full-time product manager would do, but part time. That means talking to customers, deciding what to build and what to leave out, and writing it down so engineers can build it.
When the founder is still making every product call and the team is between five and thirty engineers. A fractional PM can also help define the full-time role before you hire.
Product management on Frappe HR, an open source HR and payroll product, and building Frappe Sheets, the open source spreadsheet in Frappe Suite.
No. We make sure decisions and the reasons behind them are written down where everyone can see them, so the founder can decide faster and the team understands why.
Let's start with a call.
Thirty minutes, free of charge, and you won't sit through a sales deck.