Why Product vision plays such an important role in building exceptional products
The world is full of products but not all of them are created equal; there are an exceptional few that stand out head and shoulders above the rest. You might ask me what makes these products successful. And there could be many answers such as visionary CEOs, finding the right product-market fit at the right […]
Empowered Product Team Roles
The saying, “a chain is only as strong as its weakest link” is especially true in a software product team. At Polymorph, our teams are built on three main pillars that, when combined, form one value delivering, autonomous entity that solves the needs of users by supplying them with a well-designed, lean and robust product. […]
Software for Rent
In 2016, Polymorph launched a new commercial model for building apps. It’s a model with much less financial risk up front for our clients, where they don’t pay for the development of the app, but rather for the use of it. We build apps that add real business value, and therefore the client only starts paying […]
Building Soaring Coach: a Makerday project
Soaring Coach is a piece of software I’m developing during Makerdays (our quarterly innovation time) at Polymorph. It aims to help newer pilots develop the skill and confidence to go flying cross-country more often. What is Soaring? Soaring is the skill of staying aloft in an un-powered aircraft (often called a “glider”). Before you get […]
Stepping up our Product Development process
Testing new software with real users during an iterative development process is a good idea. In fact, stated like that it seems pretty obvious… but being an obviously good idea does not make a thing easy to do. In 2016, we embarked on the journey to create better usability testing capability in Polymorph. So in […]