Death of Product Management at SaaS Companies…

September 23, 2009 By

Last night I got an email from a company with the subject “Saas and the death of software product management“.

And… with the subtitle of “Or, While You Weren’t Looking, Your Product Manager’s Job Became a Zombie”.

The email said the following:

The growth of the SaaS business model spells the end of product management as it’s been defined in the software industry for the last thirty years… Current product management functions such as tick list herding, MRDs, PRDs, “Agile” product management and the concept of no responsibility, no accountability, and no authority will soon be as relevant to SaaS companies as DOS 3.0 and floppy disks…

Do you think what this email says is correct? Here are my thoughts on it…
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Filed Under: Product Management

Use Cases – Top-10 Reasons for Using Them to Document Your Requirements

September 22, 2009 By

In my previous post, I provided a definition of Use Case along with an example. I also took a strong stance against considering UML diagrams as use cases.

Matt Klein made a good observation on Twitter today on how use cases are often not used well when documenting requirements:

Use Cases are important and very often not captured or documented correctly…

In this post, I’d like to share with you 10 reasons why you should use Use Cases while documenting your requirements.
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Filed Under: Requirements Management, Use Cases

Use Cases – Definition (Requirements Management Basics)

September 19, 2009 By

A question that frequently comes up in my conversations nowadays is:

What exactly is a Use Case?

Let me try and explain it in this short blog post.
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Filed Under: Requirements Management, Use Cases

Why I Switched From Tweetdeck to Seesmic – And the Lessons for Product Managers

September 15, 2009 By

An hour ago, I did something without much conscious thought at all. I uninstalled the Twitter client I used to like (Tweetdeck), and installed a new one (Seesmic). And there I went, merrily tweeting.

Then, I caught myself and started thinking why I did that. The more I thought, the more I realized that there are a few valuable lessons in it for all of us who are involved in building software or products in general.

Here is my story, followed by the lessons…
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Filed Under: Product Management, User Experience Design

Product Management – SaaS vs Traditional Software

September 9, 2009 By

Mark Kromer at TechProdo blog recently wrote a nice blog post titled SaaS Product Management: Is there a difference?

In his post Mark poses the interesting question (applicable to a lot of product managers):

I was wondering what differences I would find in my role as a product manager if the products that I was managing moved to the software-as-a-service model…

As our company makes a popular SaaS tool for product management teams, we have good first-hand experience in this – and I’d like to share my thoughts here.

My short answer to Mark’s question is… [Read more…]

Filed Under: Product Management, User Experience Design
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