Managing Software Requirements: A Use Case Approach, Second Edition

Chapter 17. Product Management

Key Points

• Every project needs an individual champion or a small champion team to advocate for the product.

• In a software products company, the product manager plays the role of the champion.

• The product manager drives the whole product solution: the application itself, support, user conveniences, documentation, and the relevant commercial factors.

In Chapter 1, we analyzed challenged projects and discovered a variety of root causes, with requirements management being near the top of the list. In Chapter 16, we defined the Vision document as a seminal document in a complicated software lifecycle; this document directly addresses the requirements challenge and is the one document you can read, at any time, to see what ...