What we do
We provide product-focused services that help organisations and teams optimise their potential.
We do this as external advisors, as members of client teams, or as external teams. We help our clients solve specific problems or challenges, deliver initiatives or projects, or help build capabilities and provide long-term support.
Starting well
Discovery & inception
Defining great products and services
Product management & business analysis
Making things easier
Facilitation
Getting better
Coaching & agile transformation
Designing beautiful products
Visual design
Successfully delivering
Delivery management
Get in touch
We’d love to hear from you if you want to chat about an opportunity or challenge we might be able to help you with, if you want to work with or for us, or if you fancy chat to exchange thoughts.
Thought leadership
It is very important for us to get out of our ‘bubble’ and keep our finger on the pulse. We are active members in our professional communities, but also draw on learnings from other - sometimes seemingly unrelated - areas.
Playbooks
Practical guidance on how to solve day to day ‘problems’.
Lean Inception Toolkit
Inception playbook
Tools playbook
Product management playbook
It describes the value of product management and gives hands-on advice on how to ‘do’ product management in practice.
It is intended as starting point, that, to be successful, the practitioner will tailor to context, extend horizontally and vertically across the organisation, and ultimately evolve beyond Shu to Ha or even Ri level.
Compliance by design. A booklet.
Other interesting playbooks
Here are a number of additional playbooks we have co-created or can highly recommend
Blog
We are lucky to stand on the shoulders of giants who have delivered digital products before us, and we continue to learn from the colleagues and clients we work with. Following the tradition of knowledge sharing, we contribute to various blogs by sharing our experiences, failures, thoughts, and excitements. We are always looking for co-authors.
Podcast
We co-host the Burn Up podcast where we discuss ‘all things agile’ with the industry’s top talent, to challenge, support, and inspire like-minded practitioners. During these episodes, we may talk about the purely academic and theoretical, or give most practical advice, float ‘heretical’ ideas, or use this as therapy to post-process day to day woes and achievements.
Please get in touch if you are interested in a specific topic or being part of an episode.
Conferences
We are proud to be considered regular speakers at conferences such as Lean Agile Scotland, DevOps Days, Experts Talks, Product Tank, or Agile in the City. Not only does this allow us to share our thoughts and experiences, but more importantly it is an opportunity to meet and interact with colleagues. We would be delighted to speak at your conference or your organisation.
Upcoming conferences we've been invited to speak at
Selected previous highlights to view online
We’ve worked in a lot of Industries, amongst other things we have
worked on trading systems, reporting solutions on top of trading systems and payment gateways in the finance sector and for healthcare companies we have been involved in customer-facing websites, delivery pipelines to speed up deployment and automate regulatory concerns, and developed data-driven value propositions.
We have helped retailers optimise their supply chain and sell to their customers on- and offline, and luxury brands to build beautiful digital tools to engage with their customers.
We have supported automotive brands across all stages of the customer lifecycle, and energy companies to represent their brands and transact online.
We have assisted engineering (and many other) companies in adopting continuous delivery and agile ways of working and have aided organisations in the communication & telephony, entertainment and travel & leisure space interact with prospects and customers.
We have also supported the UK government in providing services to their citizens. We have provided our services to agencies and consultancies, and shared our knowledge and experience with the people and organisations we worked with, building internal capabilities, making them even better in what they do and how they do it.
Some of the organisations we have done work for
Beautiful Abstractions works with
We work with and for like-minded organisations so that we can provide a tailored comprehensive service offering and focus on what we excel at.