The Chief Information Officer: A Study of Managerial Roles in Norway
HICSS '02 Proceedings of the 35th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS'02)-Volume 8 - Volume 8
Software Ecosystem: Understanding an Indispensable Technology and Industry
Software Ecosystem: Understanding an Indispensable Technology and Industry
Generalizing Generalizability in Information Systems Research
Information Systems Research
IWSPM '06 Proceedings of the International Workshop on Software Product Management
Towards a Reference Framework for Software Product Management
RE '06 Proceedings of the 14th IEEE International Requirements Engineering Conference
The chief information officer: a study of managerial roles
Journal of Management Information Systems - Special section: Strategic and competitive information systems
The impacts of software product management
Journal of Systems and Software
Software Product Management and Pricing: Key Success Factors for Software Organizations
Software Product Management and Pricing: Key Success Factors for Software Organizations
Relation of CIO background, IT infrastructure, and economic performance
Information and Management
CIO roles and responsibilities: Twenty-five years of evolution and change
Information and Management
CEO/CIO mutual understanding, strategic alignment, and the contribution of IS to the organization
Information and Management
Finance as a Stakeholder in Product Management
IWSPM '09 Proceedings of the 2009 Third International Workshop on Software Product Management
What do practitioners mean when they talk about product management?
RE '12 Proceedings of the 2012 IEEE 20th International Requirements Engineering Conference (RE)
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Software product management covers both technical and business activities to management of products like roadmaps, strategic, tactical, and release planning. In practice, one product manager is seldom responsible for all these activities but several persons share the responsibilities. Therefore, it is important to understand the boundaries of product managers' work in managing software products, as well as the impact a product manager has on the company business. The purpose of the study is to clarify what roles of software product managers exist and understand how these roles are interrelated with each other and the whole structure and business of an organization. The study is designed as an interpretative qualitative study using grounded theory as the research method. Based on the gathered data we developed a framework that reveals the role of a product manager in the organization and shows how this role can evolve by extending the level of responsibilities. Using the framework, we identified four stereotypical roles of product managers in the studied organizations: experts, strategists, leaders, and problem solvers. The presented framework shows that product managers' roles are not limited to the conception of the ''mini-CEO.'' The results allow product managers and top management to collaborate effectively by assigning responsibilities and managing expectations by having a common tool for understanding the role of product managers in the organization.