Decisions
Which decisions are waiting, and who has the authority to make them? Separate recommendations from decisions the role can actually take.
Interim product & platform leadership
Clear direction.
Accountable everyday leadership.
When a product or platform team needs a leader through a gap or change, I help establish priorities, resolve decisions and coordinate delivery within an agreed mandate. You work directly with me, Allan Bau Madsen.
Read at your pace. A conversation is optional.
Four questions before handing over a leadership mandate
Use these to make the responsibility concrete, whether you bring in an interim leader or resolve the gap internally.
Commitments
What has been promised, to whom and by when? Compare those commitments with the people and capacity available.
Dependencies
Which services, business activities, teams and partners depend on this work? Identify where one change creates a commitment elsewhere.
Continuity
What must the permanent leader and team be able to continue after the engagement? Plan ownership and handover from the beginning.
Product leadership behind the contribution
My experience combines product direction, cross-functional delivery and the technical understanding needed to make platform decisions practical. The examples below describe my professional experience at the LEGO Group, rather than client engagements delivered by DueBau.
LEGO Group · Internal communications and digital employee experience
Product direction for a global employee platform
24,000+ monthly users
- Situation
- Global employee and internal communications platforms had to serve different colleague needs and business priorities. Their development involved communications, engineering, UX, governance and compliance stakeholders.
- My responsibility and contribution
- I held product responsibility for vision, strategy and roadmaps. I translated communication and colleague needs into OKRs and backlog priorities, working with the specialists and business stakeholders responsible for delivery.
- What changed
- The work sustained and developed an enterprise communications platform serving more than 24,000 monthly users, alongside continued improvements to its content governance, findability and platform coherence.
- What I bring to your situation
- I bring experience connecting business and user needs with product direction and delivery. In an interim mandate, I would use that perspective to clarify priorities, resolve choices with the right people and prepare ownership that can continue after handover.
Earlier Microsoft 365 transformation responsibilities
Priorities across five teams
I owned backlog and resource priorities across five cross-functional teams with around 45 people, connecting business needs, dependencies and delivery capacity.
Relevant when several teams and partners need coordinated priorities and commitments.
Earlier enterprise architecture and platform responsibilities
Continuity for a critical platform
My work stabilising a collaboration platform serving more than 10,000 active users combined technical principles, governance and collaboration across business, IT and external specialists.
Relevant when leadership must protect the service while improving its ownership and development.
How I would approach the assignment
Understand the working reality
I review priorities, existing commitments, service needs and unresolved decisions with the team and its stakeholders. We agree the mandate, decision rights and boundaries of the responsibility.
Establish a workable direction
I make competing demands and dependencies visible, agree what comes first and what waits, and establish a rhythm for decisions and follow-up with the people doing the work.
Leave ownership ready to continue
I keep important decisions, responsibilities and remaining risks clear. We review the assignment at agreed points and prepare a practical handover to the continuing owners.
What you can engage me for
Interim product or platform leadership
Day-to-day direction, priorities and coordination for a defined team or platform. Personnel responsibility, budget authority and decision rights are agreed explicitly.
An independent priorities and ownership review
A focused assessment of competing commitments, dependencies and accountability, with a decision brief and proposed next steps.
Leadership support through a transition
Practical sparring and coordination with your existing leaders while a new operating arrangement or permanent leader takes shape.
Explore your leadership need
Tell me which responsibility needs covering and your timeframe. We can explore the mandate, where my experience fits and whether a next step would be useful.
An exploration, at your pace.
You decide what to share and whether to continue. A no, a pause or stopping here are all welcome outcomes. Any follow-up is by agreement.
Email me about a possible fitPaid work starts only after we agree the scope and terms. If we work together, review points and arrangements for ending and handing over the engagement are agreed from the start.
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