In late 2020, our founder Arjuna led a product team in their first release of a client. Despite successful customer research and design, implementation proved challenging. This prompted Arjuna’s investigation, revealing a system issue in our industry that 75% of software products fail in delivery, with 70% of these failures due to poor team communication.
Through 2021 and 2022, SquareBear embarked on a journey of creation and rigorous testing. We crafted user experience mock-ups, honed business logic, and fine-tuned algorithms, laying the groundwork for the intelligence driving SquareBear’s collaborative engine. This exploration led to the birth of numerous innovative features, among them our patented Dynamic Userstory ™ technology. Dynamic Userstories fuel SquareBear’s intelligent linkage between product design and build team members, enabling seamless collaboration like never before. An aplha version of SquareBear was released July 2022.
SquareBear made its debut in its Beta version on February 25, 2023, with select colleagues invited to join our growing community. Through the Beta phase to our Production release in July 2023, we’ve evolved, learned, and fortified SquareBear into the robust, secure, and reliable product it is today.
In 2024 we aim to develop SquareBear beyond bringing together product teams in into the space of Agile programme management. We will be introducing capabilities in SquareBear that automatically reports on product team health to programme management and supports programme management prioritisation and guidance of product roadmaps.