Product Development

Front-end, backend, full-stack, or cross-functional…I love helping talented people build excellent products. My experience here includes:

  • Cross-functional teams

    • UI, UX, user research

    • Developers of all kinds

    • Quality assurance testers

    • DevOps

Special passion for coordinating communication across different disciplines and between different ways of approaching an issue.

  • Coordinating multiple teams

    • Program management

    • Design hand-offs

    • Dependencies and inter-related tasks

  • Distributed teams

    • Vendor & third-party team integration

    • Teams in multiple timezones

    • Off-shore team integration

  • Status and Risk tracking, management, communication

    • Client, vendor, third-party, internal stakeholder communication

    • Velocity, product stability, budget tracking

    • Risk mitigation, RACI, issue triage

  • Agile Methodologies

    • Scrum, Kanban, Lean

    • Backlog creation, refinement

    • Planning, retrospectives, stakeholder demos

  • Hybrid Waterfall/Agile structures

  • Process analysis & improvement

  • Agile advocacy, coaching

“Their knowledge of agile development is vast - I have yet to meet another PM who knows Scrum and agile development as thoroughly as Salem.

Salem's compassion, drive, and desire to see others succeed inspired me to continue moving down the project management path myself.”


“Eagle-Eyed Salem!

Salem delivers project awareness to the team daily.

Time and time again, Salem can keep a project on track, adjust, improvise, and like magic, each sprint Salem helps keep the engineers delivering.”

“I am absolutely impressed every time with their ability to facilitate dialogue with grace, diplomacy, and inclusion.

Salem conducts meetings with a calm orchestration I have not seen the likes of. We were very lucky to witness and learn from their example.”

“Salem did an excellent job keeping us accountable as we delivered sprint in and sprint out. They have a presence in meetings that naturally creates a welcoming and open environment that encourages collaboration and teamwork.

Many times, the client has called out the work Salem does to drive the project forward & how much it means to the overall success of their business.”

“Salem will carefully listen to the words you use in conversation and can glean how you feel about a topic without you explicitly saying.

Everyone appreciates being heard but it's rare to meet someone who really listens to you. Their impact allows space for everyone to speak and feel valued on the team.”


“Having Salem as a PM, I knew that my needs would be heard, addressed, and escalated when appropriate.”

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