Simon Brandstrup · Independent consultant
Make better product and portfolio decisions.
I work directly with product, portfolio, PMO and transformation leaders who need clearer priorities, stronger governance and a practical way forward.
When I can help
Three common starting points. All of them come down to choosing, governing and executing the right work.
Strategy is not translating into clear priorities
The direction is agreed, but the roadmap and the portfolio still do not reflect it, so teams keep guessing what matters most.
Governance and decisions are slowing the portfolio down
Decisions sit too long in the wrong places. Nobody is quite sure who decides what, and delivery waits.
A product or PPM initiative has lost direction
The work continues, but the original intent has faded. Adoption, scope or ownership need to be settled before it delivers.
Ways to work together
Direct involvement, real decisions, and enough technical depth to make them.
Start here
Product & Portfolio Strategy Review
I conduct a bounded assessment of where you stand: the real situation, the decisions in front of you, and the next steps I would recommend. This is where most engagements start.
Focused Strategy Sprint
I work directly with you on one defined problem — prioritization, governance, roadmap, product direction or adoption — and take it through to a decision.
Ongoing Advisory
I provide ongoing senior product and portfolio guidance on priorities, trade-offs and difficult calls, without you hiring a full-time leader.
What you end up with
Depending on the engagement, this can include:
- A shared, honest view of the problem
- Decision principles you can keep using
- A prioritized picture of the portfolio or roadmap
- Clearer governance and decision rights
- A practical action plan with owners
- Direction the delivery teams can act on
Selected work
//// The situation, what I did, and how it turned out. //
A global medical-device company was planning around a gap in the product — they had defaulted to a reporting workaround for planning versions inside a Gantt view. It clearly belonged in the product itself. I scoped the feature with their program managers, designed the data model, worked through the UX with a designer, and handed the build to the development team. It shipped, worked, and was rolled out to the entire client base.
I helped build an enterprise project-portfolio product on the Power Platform. I did the low-code work myself, and as the product grew I started prototyping in React to hand off to a growing development team. It scaled to more than 100 enterprise accounts and over 50,000 users.
On a demanding rollout, we hit serious performance problems. I ruled out hardware, kept the client moving with workarounds, then found the real cause in how the tool calculated its work-breakdown structure and fixed it at the source. The lesson I carry from that: go to the root cause first, before reaching for the patch.
Nomis Works is my independent practice
9 years turning business needs into digital products and solutions. Now I help companies make better product and technology decisions.
I have worked with customers, users and development teams as a consultant, Product Owner and Product Director — at Projectum, Context& and now independently. I know what it looks like when the roadmap is crowded, priorities are unclear and the team is unsure what to build next.
Today I work independently, helping companies figure out what matters, what to build next and how to get it delivered.
Nomis Works is my independent practice. From the first conversation to the final recommendation, you work directly with me—without account layers or junior handoffs.
I make sure we solve the real problem before we build, so you don’t pay to build the wrong thing well.
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If you have a real problem and want to solve it properly, let’s talk.
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