We want the products that we help build to have a significant purpose, and a positive meaning. We want to dazzle customers and make their lives better, be it with a consumer facing or business facing product. We aspire to bring well designed, streamlined, and effective products built by talented teams. We look to deliver products and technology that are aligned with customer values and desires, even if barely perceptible, and with business goals and needs.
By utilizing a perfect blend of on/off shore talent our team builds best in class software products while keeping the price within your reach. We truly embrace distributed nature of digital economy and believe that talent is without borders.
roadmapbe it an MVP or scaled out product.
ship productas often as possible so that our customer have an opportunity for input, adjustments, and course corrections.
We carefully listen. We gain domain knowledge. We bring teams together. We design, architect and help build by seeing deeper and wider and as a result set the stage for adaptable long term solutions. We lead product development and technology via setting or collaborating product vision. We translate product vision into foundational architecture and design. We lead existing teams or build new teams to execute on your vision while managing change.
More often than not it makes perfect sense to approach building your product in a Lean Startup fashion, a principled approach to new product development. There are times when you have to infuse a little more rigidity in your approach, for instance when your business will have to deal with things like known compliances, regulations and/or rules that govern one or another specific vertical. A product development roadmap serves as a guiding tool to the product development and product management efforts reducing uncertainty and helping you to work smarter. We will help you work through your market and product strategy, determine validity of business models, accelerate the feedback loop of MVPs and develop the product roadmap.
Laying a solid technical foundation for your business is akin to building a strong foundation for a house. Mistakes made at this stage could be very costly. Ath the same time the qualities of customer focused UX design will make or break your product's customer adaption. We bring valuable design and architecture experience to the table. This experience supports that fine balance between the need for a solid technical and design foundation and the ability to deliver quickly without loss of adaptability to integrate inevitable changes.
You want to focus on your product and business and not waste your time and resources on babysitting computer systems and applications. We will architect your infrastructure to be lean yet capable of scaling to meet your future business demands.
The product roadmap is in place, the foundation has been laid, now it is time to ‘build and ship’. We can bring an appropriate team to the table. Or in some cases, if your team has the required capability, we can manage your team. We roll up our sleeves and we work with passion and diligence.
Sometimes what you need is guidance and advice. You need to tap into the authentic and reputable experience of a CTO. We are here to consult with you as to what is the best direction or action to take next.
Unfortunately, gaining experience in building products often comes at a high cost. You have spent your time and resources with an offshore team, or you tried to hire full time developers. Months have passed and the product either has not been delivered or has failed. This happens with regularity and that is why we advise: ALWAYS enlist advice from, or direct engagement with, an experienced CTO and a product development expert. With Z.Bee.Labs both are available to you. Engaging with us produces tangible savings in time and money and steers you clear of many heartaches.
Michael is that rare combination of a strategist and a tactician, who's able to bring forward product vision and strategy and then roll-up his sleeves and do what's necessary. His breadth of technological capabilities, insight, battle hardened experience and intuition made dramatic changes possible. The team was able to stay nimble and deliver new scaled products within a very short timeframe. Michael is a professional who embodies the highest integrity and work ethics. You can always count on authentic, honest and friendly communication. I would always want to have Michael on my team.
My company Elevate pioneered a movie gifting/distribution system called PlayItFWD. New to the world of technology I admit to have made a few mistakes. But the best decision I made was to appoint Michael Shirman as CTO. I only wish I would've done it sooner. He proved to be as solid as they come. Michael is the perfect balance of right and left brain. He's as creative as he is technically brilliant. I learned much from Michael and will always be grateful for his contribution to my company and to my life.
We have worked with Michael for the past 3 years as the CTO for our check payment platform. His ability to construct a SOA platform that is scalable for millions of daily transactions and hundreds of thousands of clients creates tremendous value for our company. His attention to detail, client requirements and platform scalability allow our business to sustain growth through direct client acquisition and building business partnerships to succeed now and into the future. It is a pleasure working with him and his team.
Michael was able to develop an overall technical assessment for one of my clients. He performed his task with focus and determination under very trying circumstances. He delivered a great product that helped the client take control of their IT group.
Michael possesses the rare combination of technical prowess and business insight that makes him a formidable asset to startups and mature companies alike. Not interested in technology for technology's sake, he makes smart architectural decisions that allow for quick implementation balanced with longer term planning. Michael's insights have also been invaluable in the startup ideation process, and he balances well the excitement around a new idea with the practical realities of searching for revenue models and product requirements development. I am consistently impressed by Michael's desire to learn about and assess the viability of the latest technologies and to find the right tools for the job even if they may exist outside his comfort zone. If you have the chance to work with Michael, my advice would be to take it.
We founded some companies, joined the executive teams of others, had successful exits, and helped many other companies to build and scale their technology and products. We worked with fortune 100 and 500 US companies and with many early stage companies. Here are some of them...
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