About our approach
Here is our recipe for creating a great team: start with an ambitious purpose that resonates with your people, provide your team with sufficient autonomy, and ensure they have the time and space to master their craft.
Of course, this is probably as useful as giving you a book to read and expecting you to succeed. There are many ways in which we can help you, wherever you are on your journey. Book a no-obligation call with me and let's get started! Over the last 20+ years I have helped many organisations improve their software delivery or product management and innovation approach and in some cases their entire way of operating.
Better Software Delivery
Better software delivery is rarely something you can buy off the shelf. It requires nurturing and patience. Change is not so much hard but simply slow. Much like our brain your organisation has past perceptions that determine the next acceptable step. We can change it for the better but it takes time.
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Outcome Driven Innovation
The outcome driven innovation method (ODI), developed by Tony Ulwick of Strategyn, is a scientific method to applying Jobs To Be Done (JTBD) theory and practice. I have used it to improve product management and innovation across various organisations - startups, enterprises and government
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From Concept To Scale
Are you are startup trying to understand your progress when you don't yet have customers? Are you wondering what your journey might look like? Do you really need to give up equity for investment? Using Ash Maurya's Continuous Innovation Framework might be just what you need to navigate from idea to scale.
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Start-up mentor and advisor
As a startup mentor and advisor, I specialise in guiding entrepreneurs through the intricate journey of building and scaling their businesses. Leveraging extensive experience in the tech industry, I provide strategic advice on product development, market fit, and growth strategies. My approach combines hands-on coaching with actionable insights, empowering founders to navigate the challenges of the startup ecosystem and achieve sustainable success.
I volunteer some of my time as a judge & mentor at MassChallenge.org.
I volunteer some of my time as a judge & mentor at MassChallenge.org.
We combine the Lean Stack method with Outcome Driven Innovation and Kanban coaching to help startups validate their ideas, build products that customers need, manage and optimise their flow of work and as a result achieve their business goals.
Read our blog posts
We often publish experiences from our practice of helping organisations with their agile software delivery, product management and lean startup journeys as well as information about our Jira apps/plug-ins and various workshops we run. Check our blog for more information.
We often publish experiences from our practice of helping organisations with their agile software delivery, product management and lean startup journeys as well as information about our Jira apps/plug-ins and various workshops we run. Check our blog for more information.
What's it like to work with us?
See what others have to say
Plamen has helped our team enormously over the past few months. His assistance has allowed for our system to act more than a storage facility but as a working system, providing useful reporting to enable the team to understand agreements obtained and improve our efficiency rate.
Plamen is a superstar and listens clearly to the request. Thanks for what you have done for us; we truly appreciate your work. ~ Kirsty Joy, Team manager at TrueSpeed Communications |
To say Plamen is just a delivery expert is truly an understatement. Plamen does more than just delivery; he can absorb the context of any engagement and business at an astonishing rate. As an entrepreneur and product craftsman himself, he brings another level of thinking to any engagement. He thinks about the problem from all angles and all stages (technical and operational), and wants to make sure whatever is delivered will stand the test of time and exceed expectations. It is always a joy to watch how he builds fantastic relationships with our customers and colleagues. Plamen gets the job done no matter what it takes and is always presents himself as a skilled professional that consistently delivers above expectations.
Thank you for helping to create and drive the EE values forward! I have enjoyed working and learning from you through the years! ~ Ryan Sikorsky, Co-Founder at Equal Experts |
I was lucky enough to work with Plamen on a range of products and his knowledge with pragmatic application was first class. His calm but engaging personality helped foster a new culture within the team that enabled deeper insights and challenged how we worked.
~ Des Smith - Head of Digital Products & Integration at Telefonica O2 |
EqualExperts have been partners with Plamen for a number of years and that’s for a good reason. With every engagement, Plamen has demonstrated great ability to understand our customers’ way of operating and then worked with other EE consultants and the customer’s team to discover better ways of building the right software, the right way.
I had the chance to work with Plamen twice over the last 8 years, in an Engagement manager capacity, and I personally witnessed his calm and focused approach which has been appreciated by teams and customers alike.
- Dave Hewett, partner at Equal Experts
I had the chance to work with Plamen twice over the last 8 years, in an Engagement manager capacity, and I personally witnessed his calm and focused approach which has been appreciated by teams and customers alike.
- Dave Hewett, partner at Equal Experts
Get in touch to arrange a free consultation
TELL ME MORE ABOUT YOUR GOALS
Let us know what you’re trying to achieve and we’ll happily chat to you and see if we can help further.
This is a no-obligation initial conversations. If we can’t help then we part as friends.
This is a no-obligation initial conversations. If we can’t help then we part as friends.
Helping you do better.
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