In my last post, I began a discussion on how the role of product managers is changing with the emergence of SaaS and cloud computing. One of the most significant differences product managers need to embrace surrounds the pricing model. Another significant challenge is in the area of requirements gathering. Product managers need to not only define the features and…
Tag: Product Management
Pricing Cloud Services
Everyone is talking about cloud computing and Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) these days. Almost every technology vendor has announced a cloud strategy – even the traditional software zealots. But what do cloud computing and SaaS mean for product managers? In a recent report, Forrester Research stated that “No member of the development effort faces greater change in moving into the SaaS world…
Everybody Works in Smaller Marketing Organizations
There is an excellent chapter in the book Rework by Jason Fried and David Heinemeir entitled “Everybody Works.” The authors state that “With a small team, you need people who are going to do work, not delegate work…Everyone’s got to be producing…No one can be above the work.” The authors go on to say that “Delegators are dead weight for…
