Audit
Building a product team and culture from the ground up in an SME
Pierre-Louis Giros
CPO at Allshare
A two-week-
s to define the appropriate action plan and bring the executive committee on board.
- Formation of a Product Team and Appointment of a Product Director
- Establishing a clear roadmap, prioritized by value
- Setting up a standardized software core
- Standardized deployment across the entire customer base
- Migration plan validated with 150 customer subsidiaries
2
weeks to develop an effective action plan
"What I particularly appreciated was Stellar's ability to tailor their recommendations to our product's current stage of development. We were starting from scratch and were concerned that their recommendations might be out of touch with our reality, or that the investment plan would be too burdensome. On the contrary, their plan was fully tailored to our needs, yet still ambitious. That was all it took to get the executive committee and all the teams on board."
Stellar and Allshare are collaborating to develop the product during a phase of SaaS transformation.
In this project, Alexandre, a product strategy expert at Stellar, assisted Pierre-Louis Giros, Product Director at Allshare, in building the Product team, defining a clear roadmap, and implementing a standardized software core to support the company’s SaaS transformation.
Mission
Allshare has been a software publisher for over 30 years. The company provides powerful, customizable budget management, control and forecasting solutions to key accounts, via a low-code platform. Today, Allshare is evolving into a SaaS software company with a strong product culture, by strengthening its organization and its capacity to innovate on a large scale.
Tangible results
s toward a high-performing product organization
Stellar's support has enabled Allshare to establish a solid foundation for a mature product organization, supporting its transition to a SaaS model and sustainable growth.
- Structured Product Team: A dedicated team, led by a Product Director, now enables strategy and priorities to be coordinated centrally. This fosters better collaboration and the sharing of best practices, with a genuine breaking down of silos among teams.
- Standardization of core software: A common foundation enables one-click deployment and allows development efforts to be shared among customers.
- Clarity of roadmaps: Each project manager has an independent roadmap, enabling better prioritization and smoother execution.
- Strategic alignment: Product decisions are now aligned with business priorities, driving double-digit growth. Deployment time has been reduced from 6 months to 15 days.
#1 Structuring a product organization to align with your SaaS goals
Allshare sought to strengthen its product culture by clarifying its vision, defining a shared roadmap, and defining roles. This evolution now enables us to better prioritize development efforts and accelerate the time-to-market for customer requests.
Structuring a product team
Creation of a Product Unit, appointment of a Product Director, and recruitment of two Product Managers to define the vision, develop roadmaps, and support the SaaS transformation.
#2 Different versions for different customers
Each major account had its own dedicated instance of the platform, making it impossible to deploy updates simultaneously and driving up maintenance costs.
Establishing a common, modular foundation
Development of a standardized software core designed to accommodate specific customer requirements through modules, ensuring product stability while enabling simultaneous deployment across the entire installed base.
#3 Slow progress and mounting technical debt
The lack of standards and clear priorities led to constant rework and long delivery times.
Implementation of an agile roadmap and processes
Definition of a clear, structured roadmap, supported by product scoping methods, to improve visibility, prioritization, and execution speed.
Results
Tangible results:Toward a high-performance product organization
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