“Human infrastructure” for development organizations
“Offers MGR” is a service that maximizes the productivity of product development organizations, and its mission is to create “human infrastructure” that solves post-hiring organizational issues faced by management.
In this note, Tanaka, the business manager, will share his thoughts behind the product, including why he came to develop "Offers MGR" and what kind of "human infrastructure" he wants to realize with "Offers MGR."
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What is “Offers MGR”?
1. Provides development productivity metrics and improvement insights
maximizes the productivity of product development organizations.
We extract data from services used in development work, such as GitHub, Jira, and Figma, and visualize changes in work content and volume by individual, team, and employment type.
We identify where the current issues are in the development organization and suggest where improvements can be made to increase operational efficiency.
2. It also encourages collaboration and communication.
We also have API links with Slack and Notion
By measuring performance from multiple angles, such as the amount of communication and documentation, it is also possible to visualize the condition and manage motivation on an individual basis.
Why was born?
In particular, Output comparison by employment type and Condition management are indicators that were created because we have been operating 「Offers」, a side job/job change service.
※ Offers is overflow's recruitment support service that provides Offers MGR.
While a variety of work styles such as full-time employment, freelance work, side jobs (multiple jobs), and remote work are becoming more widespread, management is becoming more difficult and important.
If the way you work changes, the way you manage and evaluate results will also change. It takes a lot of man-hours to create organizations and rules to accommodate them.
Therefore, in Offers MGR, we have added functions that support people management that deals with each member individually, such as visualizing the output status by employment type and the condition of each individual.
Offers MGR was born not just as a tool to manage a development organization, but as a service that improves the growth and productivity of the members involved and the organization.
Whose problems does solve?
At Offers MGR, we want to help development organizations increase productivity.
To that end, we have implemented functions to solve management issues faced by leaders and managers of development organizations.
There are two management issues in development organizations: "management in the development process and management of people.
In terms of "management in the development process," the issue is that each development process becomes individualized and becomes a black box, making it impossible to improve development speed.
Issues with "people management" include not being able to grasp the workload of each person, not being able to decide which tasks to hand over, and not being able to manage motivation.
These management challenges need to be addressed in stages.
1 First the individual
2 then the team
3 finally the management
reason
In order to improve the productivity of a product development organization, it is first necessary to visualize the work content of each person, and review whether the conditions, work processes, and work efficiency are optimal.
If individuals are not able to perform to the best of their abilities in the tasks required of them, this can lead to delays in feature releases or become a regular occurrence, which can affect development, business, and products as a whole.
Visualize and optimize on a team-by-team
Similarly, in order to visualize and optimize on a team-by-team basis, it is necessary to look at individual collaboration between teams. A bad case is that as the number of people increases and the organization expands, it leads to silos, resulting in an unleveraged organization where teams do not know or do not know much about the surrounding teams.
Visualize the return on investment in human resources from a management perspective
Ultimately, we will be able to discuss the people, goods, and money of the development organization for the entire company by looking at everything from a management perspective to the return on investment in human resources, using accounting, labor, etc. data. I think it is necessary to do so.
Aiming for an unprecedented “human infrastructure”
We predict that the need for Offers MGR will increase in the future from the perspective of market size.
The business field of "Offers MGR" falls under the category of "talent management" in Japan, but the talent management market is increasing year by year due to the spread of telework and the increasing need for systemization of human resources operations, and is in the hundreds of billions of billions of billion yen. It has become a yen-sized market.
Additionally, the Financial Services Agency has announced that it will begin to apply this in a phased manner starting with securities reports for the fiscal year ending March 2023 (Reiwa 5) at the earliest. Companies are beginning to be required to respond to disclosure of human capital, and we expect the market size to further expand in the future.
Overseas, the fields of HCM (Human Capital Management) and HRM (Human Resource Management) are growing significantly. It is being developed into a variety of services, including AI for recruitment, and will continue to be a hot market in the future.
出典：https://www.gii.co.jp/report/mama1059989-human-capital-management-market-covid-impact.html
The human capital management (HCM) market size is projected to reach USD 32 billion by 2026, from USD 22.3 billion in 2021, growing at a CAGR of 7.5% during the forecast period.
Increase the number of good companies from Japan by supporting software development
The Future Human Resources Vision released by the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry shows that employees have a low desire to learn and companies are not investing in people.
When I saw this, I was shocked to realize that Japan's international competitiveness has already declined, and I wonder if it will continue to decline in the future.
出典：https://www.meti.go.jp/press/2022/05/20220531001/20220531001-1.pdf
Offers MGR, along with Offers, aims to be a product that strongly supports the growth of Japanese software companies from an organization. This is not the case for Otani's success in baseball, but I would like to see more Japanese software companies active overseas, and the combination of software with other industries and the growth of the software industry are good for the Japanese nation and society as a whole. I believe it will be.
I feel that I am driven by a sense of mission to create a strong industry from Japan.
To achieve this, we would like to support decision-making in software management, HR, and management based on data.
I would also like to create a product that affirms the significance of individual existence, motivates individuals to work, and allows individuals to believe in their potential, so that individuals can believe in themselves and maximize their potential.
We aim to create a "human infrastructure" that empowers individuals and organizations, where believing in individuals benefits the team and company, and leads to business and corporate growth, and ultimately to the growth of Japan.
Next time, we will introduce more specific service content, such as how to use "Offers MGR" and how to connect data to action!
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