Software Product Manager

Software Product Managers drive products to provide business value. Relating solely to the business and functional requirements- and neglecting to understand the technology behind the product- will cripple the Product Manager instead of empowering her. If your software product uses APIs (it’s rare not to), then it is likely that…

The journey towards Product Management is one full of distractions and ramifications. You are expected to know a lot about a lot of things. It’s a vast territory, and it’s dangerous to travel without a map. Well, if not dangerous, at least extremely wasteful. This is MY product management reading…

In the article, What is a Product — A Strategy Perspective-I, we looked at why a product mindset helps an organization build software effectively. The mathematical equations showed economies of scale are inherent in building products. We also suggested two characteristics for products: We intend to provide the same services…

How, and can we discipline ourselves for the SPM position? While in Serbia, these three letters are pretty much unknown, when are translated, everyone under 30 will have someone who is in that position, knows what this role serves, or is in that position currently. The last listed respondents didn’t have formal education for this specific occupation. They perhaps attended…

Creating useful metrics that clearly show whether your project or product is performing as you had planned or hoped can be a difficult task. Creating a metric with clear, unambiguous measurements requires some thinking before hand, which may sometimes be skipped. This can happen for example, because the project management…

Many roles in IT are loosely defined, and responsibilities that go along with them are somewhat gray areas. The role of Product Owner (or PO as I’ll continue to abbreviate it) is one of these, and I believe the word owner in the name is partly responsible for misleading many…

This fast-paced world needs everything to be delivered quickly. From coffee to carrier growth everyone needs everything without waiting. Similarly, the service-oriented IT sectors need applications to be delivered at the market with less development time and quick testing. This thirst gave birth to Rapid Application Building(RAB) is also called…

Having a roadmap is very important for managing the product lifecycle. However, to correctly draw up a roadmap, it is necessary to approach this issue systematically. It is very important not to confuse a roadmap with a vision, although having a vision is necessary to properly build a roadmap. You…

In the past 16 years, there were tons of software products (or called applications) that came into our life. For example, the utility applications show the usage of electricity and water, the bank applications manage our assets, the communication applications connect us in different ways. All the applications show a…