Product Development Manager
Execution owner for the Compliance, SCAP, Database, Security, Content, Agent modules in the product.My responsibility included - Requirement Analysis, Interacting/Negotiating with Product Management on feature requirements.- Interact with Architects to complete technical feasibility study of feature requirements, perform POC’s, impact analysis on existing product to resolve problem statements (or business requirement) and create/update SDD (Software Design Document).- Requirement/Solution validation with clients, interact with various stakeholders (Product Management, Line Managers, IDD, Architects) and get signoff on SDD.- Task/feature breakdown/estimation , Resource Estimation.- On boarding/Hiring activities in group.- Tracking project execution, scheduling scrums, status meetings, updating plans and providing reports to relevant stakeholders, Scheduling product demos with stakeholders.- Risk / Release management.- Interact with Support and Sustaining teams to resolve escalations.- On site customer visits.- Set up processes to improve Dev and QA quality and improve team efficiencies.- People Management.o Managed a team of 21 developers working on various modules of the Product.o Performance Management, work with individuals to come up with IDP (Individual Development Plans), 9 box ratings for team, regular 1:1’s.o People Excellence initiatives, process improvements and other organizational initiatives.-Interact/Negotiate with Contractors/Vendors for outsourcing development projects, create SOW’s (Statement of Work) / hiring contracts etc.- Reviewed Test strategies, release test plans(functional/ regression) , PSR test plans, test cases in HP Quality Center etc.- Designed strategy and framework for automated testing of Bladelogic Content-Overall responsible and accountable for day to day operations and achieving release objectives of the product.