As a Product Manager I have a broad role that encompasses the following responsibilities:
Product Management which encompasses:
- Advising the Road Map Committee on the features required for the scheduled releases
- Market research
- Producing business requirements for the new features, enhancements, reports etc.
Development Lead which encompasses
- Project managing the development of the releases (the full SDLC)
- Assist with producing the technical specifications
- Managing the fixing of errors and bugs in the system and the resultant hot-fix/service pack releases
- Managing the development team
- Software development
- Producing product documentation
- Consultant and support staff training (new people, new releases etc.)
- Setting the architectural and technical standards
Customer Services which encompasses
- Assisting with issues that cannot be resolved by support and need to be escalated to development
- Client consulting to understand and resolve issues the customers have with BarnOwl
- Pre-Sales assistance to the sales team
- Client training on an ad-hoc basis