Timewave's Head of Product interviewed on Datadrivet
Datadrivet is a podcast about building digital products in a smarter way. Robert Ingemarsson from Timewave joins to talk about how fewer features in software can lead to happier customers. An insightful episode on product development - don't miss it!
In the latest episode of the Datadrivet podcast, Robert Ingemarsson at Timewave shares an unusual and not entirely intuitive way to create value: stripping your product of unnecessary or counterproductive functionality. The podcast’s conversations revolve around data-driven product development, experimentation and product-led growth. Put simply, Datadrivet is a pod for product people (whether they’re heads of product, product owners or people in other roles who want better insight into the challenges product people face at work). Robert shares his experiences on the pod.
A tip from a colleague at sister company Struqtur in the Marathon group led Timewave into a wave of removing functionality, with happier customers and lower costs as the result. Their product development work is a great example of how we at Marathon share knowledge between our companies. During 2023, Timewave has thrown several million lines of code out of its codebase, and hundreds of features have been removed from the product. You might think this would cause problems with the software and for the customers… but the customers don’t miss the features that were removed, and the people using the product have become happier now that it’s simpler! At the same time, customer service gets fewer calls from customers who need help, and the development team spends less time both maintaining the product and building new things, since there are fewer aspects to take into account.
A really great episode on product development in software companies, if you ask us at Marathon!
Listen to the episode on Spotify here: https://open.spotify.com/episode/2fzHX99tjLFw5KSZJrDvLK?si=2d35b331923a4849
Listen to the episode on Apple Podcasts here: https://podcasts.apple.com/se/podcast/datadrivet/id1542735958?i=1000630004983
Timewave develops and markets the market-leading business system for Sweden’s home service companies. More information is available at timewave.se.