Business and competition go together. A business model must account for other businesses selling similar products to the same target market. That’s why businesses need a competitive edge.
Selling products and services need software management to get customers. This means businesses need to scale their software expertise.
To do this, the fundamentals need to be put in place so that software engineering skills are introduced and grown. Without these skills businesses risk running an operation that won’t survive against their competition.
Risk is a result of Time-To-Market (TTM) concerns and investor pressure that demand business departments to move faster. This can cause:
- A damaged business strategy.
- Startups to panic.
- Reduced communication between product teams and engineering teams in software management departments.
- Customer needs not aligned to business objectives.
A study by the Project Management Institute in 2020 found approximately 11.4% of all resources in the modern business landscape are wasted due to poor project management. This is because businesses are struggling to find the right strategy.[1]
Therefore, building a productive software management department is a strategy that will give businesses a competitive edge to meet their software needs and reach their target market.
What makes a productive software management department?
Productive software management departments ensure customer needs are aligned with business objectives. This is not possible without individual teams that work at every stage of the software development lifecycle as each team works together to create exceptional digital products.
Teams to focus on when growing a software management department are, product teams and engineering teams.
Product teams in software management departments
Product teams understand what product is being built and why. To fully understand the ‘what’ and the ‘why’ these team need different staff. These include Product Managers, Product Owners, and Business Analysts.
Engineering teams in software management departments
The product team gives their specifications to the engineering team. The engineering team is a technical team including Software Developers, Software Team Leads and Software Managers. They write product code and create the front end.
There’s a fine line between these teams and they are brought together with collaboration. The more they collaborate, the better the product.
Businesses can build a productive software management department with our apprenticeships. We provide software engineering apprenticeships from level 3 to level 6. They introduce and grow software engineering skills in businesses to plug multi-faceted skill gaps across software management departments.
[1] findstack | Project management statistics
