This ia amarketting oriented questionaire and perhaps many may not have appropriate information to fill. The QUESTIONAIRE SHALL HAVE An answer that no data...
Since I tell everyone what types of software marketing the survey covers, they can decide before taking the suvey if it's relevant to them. Once in the...
"The Product Manager's Desk Reference" is shipping now. Finally, there's a reference for everyone in product management. It's the first guidebook creating a...
On Sept. 24th OpSource and Softletter will be conducting a free webinar that previews highlights from Softletter's 2008 SaaS survey. The survey will shortly...
Hi I am not moderating it in Linkedin. Thanks Arun ... -- Thanks Arun Sahaya Kumar Principal Product Manager, Oracle http://www.linkedin.com/in/arunsahayakumar...
Dear Product Managers, I have been thinking about the role description of a Software Product Manager based in the USA and have been comparing it with the role...
Hi Yogesh You are absolutely right..! For now I can throw few points really where India based Product managers adds avantage.... - Do comparative product...
Thanks for the response Thyagarajan. Is this the case in all the software companies? Do we have Product Managers here from Oracle, SAP and Yahoo? Are you being...
There is a major issue when it comes to HQ product managers and 'outpost' product managers. HQ product managers generally own the business of the product and...
Hi Just to add few more to Thyagarajan's... 1. We are involved in pre-sales activity - for Product demos / presentations 2. Formulation of ROI and Value...
I complete accept Steven most of the product manger are recruited by parent companies in INDIA only to handle tactical activities. Naveen Krishnan "Every...
Hello Samhitha, it looks like you are heavily on the pre-sales side and may have a different problem :) This is good though, it looks like you are out in front...
Hello Steven, While there is merit to political argument i.e. HQ vs outpost, I think there is also the proximity factor involved. To be more precise, which...
Yogesh, Extremely important point. Local practitioners have an obligation to provide local market insight to the product teams in HQ, but sometimes they don't...
The issue is also about the maturity of the local market. For most of my enterprise customers in India, they do not get to define their requirements, they just...
Vinay, that's interesting. Where do you get the data for making your decisions? Especially the qualitative data like political power-centres at HQ. One can...
Data for decisions has to be from sales/customers. Qualitative stuff is usually done over late night calls with sales/customers, twice an year travel to...
It is an interesting discussion. I am sure there are companies where PMs based out of India have a significant ownership. As you correctly described, APAC...
I guess, the only way one can get more responsibilities is by proving one's worth by doing a commendable job. Exposure of one's work at the right level in HQ...
Ravi, I agree with you. It's up to the PM to ensure they "fit," and to 'do what it takes' to do what's right for the business. This means the PM needs to...
Yogesh, From my experience, I see not much difference b/w a PM in California and a PM in Bangalore, in terms of understanding the mkt directions, customer...
Hello Pavan, I am not sure I understand the point that you are trying to make. Where are the majority of your customers - APAC or elsewhere? How do you...
Friends Very good discussion....some more here. Â Irrespective of the roles/jobs what we do across the world, typically the Product manager would be located...
Shame on Indian govt. and Media. Shame on u Politicians... I wishing this mail reaches right people, today itself. Please take this is high priority to frwd. ...
Tyagarajan, You've sum-it up well. I would add one more item that IT/automation systems do play a large role in making a PM role easy, esp. when the products...
Dear All, Â Good discussion on product management is here - I dont know how many of you attended ,last year Marty Cagan conducted product management workshop...
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