Tasneem Gould
Tas is a product management advisor, coach and trainer that works with leaders at Fortune 500 companies and SaaS scale ups to enable growth through building impactful product teams and organizations. Tas is a no-nonsense product management expert giving product managers and businesses the tools, knowledge, and courage to be more effective, build high performing teams & more successful products in the B2B technology space.
Tas is an experienced practitioner and trainer in Product-led software development, with deep skills in Customer Experience Design, Product Strategy, Release Planning and Agile Development. She is passionate about developing the capability in others to support them as they launch new products, expand into new markets and partnerships, develop delightful customer experiences and create a smooth, inclusive and impactful product operations structure.
Currently, Tas is the CEO and founder of GSD Alliance, which offers training and coaching for product people. She is a board member of Product Aotearoa, and leads product management at Unlock Innovation. She teaches Product Management at University of Canterbury in the Executive Education program and a regular speaker across NZ-wide product gatherings, and run the Product Management meetup in Christchurch with over 1300 members.
Companies Tas has worked with include Caterpillar Trimble, Ao Frio, Serko, Pegasus Health and JCurve.
Tas specializes in helping large, complex B2B products, often with multiple hardware and software components, navigate the challenges of a shifting tech and business landscape by levelling up their product discovery, delivery and operational functions.
Focus
- Product coaching: helping product managers, product owners and product teams together or one on one to work more effectively
- Product Training: using the Learn, Apply, Do model to train for product concepts, best practices, skillset and techniques
- Product Operations: Create a standard, "designed for you" process using best practices and models to create the structure and flexibility that allows your teams to excel at product development, from roadmaps to discovery to delivery and launch.
- Performance Management Support: Helping review and improve performance at product management and delivery, and support HR to get the best outcomes from people
Services
Product coaching
Coaching your product and development teams to work more effectively and efficiently.
$250 per hour
Half day training/ workshop
Create, design and deliver a training or workshop session on a product management, marketing or agile related topic. Up to 15 participants.
$2000 per half day
Full day training/ workshop
Create, design and deliver a training or workshop session on a product management, marketing or agile related topic. Up to 15 participants.
$3000 per day
Product Operations
Create and communicate a new operating process for the product development lifecycle that merges existing and new needs and processes, and a roll out and execution plan. Including planning, reporting and data and metrics management frameworks.
$200 per hour
Offsite and meeting facilitation
Run your strategy or planning meetings/ workshops as a facilitator
$2000 per day