Product Engineering

A four stage ramp model for a new offshore engineering team: what to expect and what to measure in each window, and the failure signals that appear at each boundary.

Why proofs of concept stall before production, what the gap actually consists of, and how to structure prototyping so that what works can actually be shipped.

Roles, ratios, reporting lines and ownership boundaries for a product engineering pod in India, plus the ramp sequence and the structural mistakes that cause pods to stall.

Three ways to add dedicated engineering capacity to a SaaS company, compared on speed, cost, ownership, IP and reversibility, with the conditions under which each is the right call.

Roadmap slippage is usually a capacity and decision latency problem, not an estimation problem. The real causes, how to diagnose which one you have, and what each requires.