As a co-founder of a financial planning SaaS platform for high net worth investors, I hired Karen Donoghue as an independent consultant to help the founding executive team plan the MVP release of the product offering. I was familiar with Karen’s work as a UX/PM consultant while I was in an executive role at T-Mobile in Seattle.
Karen works very collaboratively, rapidly delivering PM and UX assets to assist a product team in clarifying and validating requirements for a new product offering, helping to establish features and get to a prototype. As a consultant to our founding exec team, Karen worked collaboratively with our team to help establish requirements, validate and prioritize them and in turn define features and architectural attributes in the product user experience for a MVP release. Karen helped coach the team to use agile product planning methods as part of the product planning process. She expressed major UX concepts and flows that reflected our requirements and enabled all stakeholders to understand the end user experience. Karen rapidly delivered critical shareable artifacts such as flows and wireframes. She reviewed each iteration with the team to help establish feature prioritization and help the team get to a MVP definition.
Karen is a pleasure to work with and I highly recommend her services to software product teams. All of Karen’s work for our executive team was performed remotely and I appreciate her professional demeanor and the quality of her deliverables.