I build Solutions that work.

Hi! I am Joshua Rastetter, a product enthusiast and data nerd based in Texas.

I have an extensive technical background with over 10 years supporting and creating SAAS applications, and b2b enterprise software.

I specialize in ProductOps (product operations), helping product teams build processes that actually work in the real world.

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Market Solution Highlights

Actionable Analytics for Frontline Manager

Problem Summary:
Discovery revealed that many organizations were facing challenges in delivering timely, concise, and actionable insights to their frontline managers. This was due to incomplete or outdated wage, hour, and staffing data, resulting in gaps in the information used for strategic decision-making by leadership and analyst teams.

Solution:

Embed a full featured and AI enhanced BI tool directly into the application where manager already spend most of their time.

Actionable dashboard with AI driven insights.
Personalized reports and dashboards.
More portable wage and hour data to enhance enterprise analytics strategy.
Powerful tools for controlling labor costs such as overtime and compliance penalties.

Customers saw an average 250% ROI within the first 90 days.

Meal Break Regulation Compliance

Background:

Many states and provinces in the United States and Canada have regulations requiring employers to provide workers with a break or meal period if their shift exceeds a certain number of hours. California has additional parameters on when during the shift the meal break should occur, and failure to comply entitles the worker to an additional hour of pay at their regular rate. Non-compliance can result in significant financial penalties and legal liability for organizations.

Problem Summary:

Meal break tracking provides organizations with peace of mind regarding compliance with break and rest period rules.

Automated tracking and notification of break rule violations before they occur.
A significant increase in break rule compliance.
A substantial decrease in the number of violations, resulting in nearly $10 million in penalties saved in the first year alone compared to the year before.

Customers saw an average savings of $1000 per employee per year.

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Product Operations Solutions

The Polaris Strategy

The Polaris strategy is a pragmatic implementation of the North Star Playbook from amplitude. It builds upon the concept of outcome driven product management, provides tools to identify and trim any processes or ceremony that are not adding value, and uses automation to shorten the learning loop.

Polaris is not a dogma or a framework just a set of Product Ops tools and best practices that can scale up or down to match an organization's needs.

The "Constalation" Strategy

One of the grim realities of product management is that the further down the pipeline a product or release is the harder it can become to trace back to the "so what" or the "why" behind it.

At its heart the constellation is a simple concept every artifact gets linked back to the main value measure and business goal, either directly or in a chain so that any stakeholder reading a document can follow the constellation back to the underlaying business goal and value.

Depending on the available tech stack this can be easy, or nearly automatic in the case of systems like ProductBoard, or in some cases it may require some discipline to execute.

AI Driven Workflows

Using automated data pipelines, and AI driven tools, like anomaly detection, Clustering, and sentiment analysis, most of the data gathered from feedback and discovery can be automatically processed and categorized, cutting days or weeks off of the product team's turnaround time from raw market data to insights.