Comments on: Q&A: Should I move to SaaS Production PM role? http://www.GeekMBA360.com/qa-should-i-move-to-saas-production-pm-role Career Advice At The Intersection Of Business And Technology Sun, 13 Nov 2011 11:00:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.1 By: efacility http://www.GeekMBA360.com/qa-should-i-move-to-saas-production-pm-role/comment-page-1#comment-19305 efacility Fri, 16 Apr 2010 22:51:11 +0000 http://www.GeekMBA360.com/?p=167#comment-19305 This is right on the money...SaaS is an Ops/Dev mashup and the product manager, in a perfect world, sits orthogonal to both ops and dev...managing the PDLC which again in this mythical world should not touch SDLC or ILM right? In theory...I think that its hard not to get involved with ops and the Infrastructure Lifecycle or Dev and the SDLC as they are both rolled up into silos of the PDLC in the launch and iterative release process. The real question is how does a company's organization choose to implement the workforce to do the PDLC, that drive's the whole process. In my opinion a company should have project managers doing some sort of Scrum or agile work on the SDLC side, and operationalized Program Managers tracking infrastructure work while marketing and product managers drive feature and the PDLC. The trifecta... all getting along in harmony...heh, yes that would be a perfect world. This is right on the money…SaaS is an Ops/Dev mashup and the product manager, in a perfect world, sits orthogonal to both ops and dev…managing the PDLC which again in this mythical world should not touch SDLC or ILM right? In theory…I think that its hard not to get involved with ops and the Infrastructure Lifecycle or Dev and the SDLC as they are both rolled up into silos of the PDLC in the launch and iterative release process. The real question is how does a company's organization choose to implement the workforce to do the PDLC, that drive's the whole process. In my opinion a company should have project managers doing some sort of Scrum or agile work on the SDLC side, and operationalized Program Managers tracking infrastructure work while marketing and product managers drive feature and the PDLC. The trifecta… all getting along in harmony…heh, yes that would be a perfect world.

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