Comparison of Software Product Management Practices in SMEs and Large Enterprises

Maglyas, Andrey; Nikula, Uolevi; Smolander, Kari

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“…These lists include from 16 to 38 practices. Companies rarely adopt all product management practices and focus on subsets of them that bring most benefits to the business [6]. In contrast, the existing frameworks provide little guidance on how to adopt them iteratively rather than instantly [6].…”

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“…Companies rarely adopt all product management practices and focus on subsets of them that bring most benefits to the business [6]. In contrast, the existing frameworks provide little guidance on how to adopt them iteratively rather than instantly [6]. Understanding and inclusion of these priorities observed in practice to frameworks would be an important step for further development of SPM education, research, and practice.…”

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The Preliminary Results from the Software Product Management State-of-Practice Survey

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Software Business. Towards Continuous Value Delivery

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Abstract. Software product management (SPM) as a discipline includes many practices like product and release planning, market analysis, roadmapping, and product lifecycle management. Product management frameworks prescribe these practices but companies seldom adopt all of them. We conducted a state-of-practice survey with the aim to investigate how companies adopt SPM practices and how this practical experience fits together with the framework suggested by International Software Product Management Association (ISPMA). The results of this study showed that ISPMA SPM Framework describes core product management practices well but the impact of product management practices to the final product success remains ambiguous.

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How to Govern VSE Teams: Experiences Through a Model and Case Study

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Montenegro

2018

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A comprehensive overview of software product management challenges

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Miler

2022

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The principal focus of software product management is to ensure the economic success of the product, which means to prolong the product life as much as possible with modest expenditures to maximizs profits. Software product managers play an important role in the software development organization while being responsible for the strategy, business case, product roadmap, high-level requirements, product deployment (release-management), and retirement plan. This article explores the problems that affect the software product management process, their perceived frequency and perceived severity. The data were collected by a systematic literature review (5 main databases were analyzed), interviews (10 software product managers from IT companies), and surveys (89 participants). 95 software product management problems assigned nonexclusively to 7 areas were identified. 27 commonly mentioned software product management problems were evaluated for their perceived frequency and perceived severity. The problems perceived as the most frequent are: determining the true value of the product that the customer needs, strategy and priorities change frequently, technical debt, working in silos, and balancing between reactive and proactive work. In total, 95 problems have been identified which have been narrowed down to 27 problems based on their occurrence in at least 3 interviews. These selected problems were prioritized by perceived frequency and perceived severity. Some of the identified problems spanned beyond the software product management process itself, but they all affect the work of software product managers.

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Comparison of Software Product Management Practices in SMEs and Large Enterprises

Cited by 7 publications

References 16 publications

The Preliminary Results from the Software Product Management State-of-Practice Survey

The Preliminary Results from the Software Product Management State-of-Practice Survey

How to Govern VSE Teams: Experiences Through a Model and Case Study

A comprehensive overview of software product management challenges

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