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The team makes the awesome products

 


We had an awesome team coffee and brunch meeting on Friday.

In between drinks and food and chats we did some quick retro work on what do we need to do to create awesome products. It was great to see the team give a mix of different themes of work, all constructively communicated.

Product activities
  • Clear product and strategy
  • Understand the market
  • Talking to customers
  • Not reinventing the wheel where we can
Improving the team 
  • Better use of time
  • Aligning dev team to understand our UX choices
  • Multi teams working well together
  • More inter department collaboration
Building our soft skills 
  • Better relationship with sales
  • Can do attitude
  • Growth mindset



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