Mastering Software Product Management

A Guide to Conceiving Products for Sustained Competitive Advantage.Key Features● Step-by-step framework for building competitive, market-driven products.● Practical guidance on strategy, pricing, user experience, and agility.● Proven techniques to handle competition, compliance, and intellectual property.Book DescriptionProduct management is the backbone of successful businesses, bridging strategy, innovation, and execution. Mastering Software Product Management takes a goal-driven approach to product management, helping readers understand how software products create differentiated value while reducing costs. It explores the external forces shaping business success—industry rivalry, bargaining power of buyers and suppliers, new entrants, and substitutes—and provides a strategic framework to achieve sustained competitive advantage.Readers will learn how to build processes that counter these challenges. A strong product vision can outmaneuver competition, value-based pricing and a seamless user experience can convert buyers into loyal customers, and well-structured contracts can align supplier expectations. Protecting intellectual property strengthens innovation, while compliance standards create barriers against substitutes. Engaging teams with agile practices ensures smooth execution and long-term product success.Rather than prescribing rigid processes, this book helps readers recognize the necessity of product management and develop their own strategies. By identifying core strengths and aligning them with business objectives, readers will gain the tools to build market-leading products and drive sustained growth.What you will learn● Decode the external forces that shape market competition and strategy.● Craft a compelling product vision that drives business success.● Turn buyers into loyal customers with pricing and user experience.● Secure vendor accountability with well-structured contracts.● Strengthen market position through intellectual property and compliance.● Align teams and accelerate execution with agile product management.Table of Contents1. The Practice of Product Management2. Strategy3. Product Vision4. Customer5. Pricing6. User Experience7. Contracts8. Intellectual Properties9. Compliance10. Agile Process11. People12. Epilogue      IndexAbout the AuthorsSambit Kumar Dash is passionate about turning technology product ideas into reality. He has over 25 years of experience in product and business management, architecture, and research and development. His interests in technology expand to document technologies, computer security, artificial intelligence, and natural language processing. Sambit created a PDF reader library in the Julia programming language, which is available on GitHub (https://github.com/sambitdash/PDFIO. jl). He is passionate about developing new technologies and holds eight patents in document technologies, computer security, virtualization, and human-computer interfaces. He has authored two books: Hand-On Julia Programming and Ultimate Web Authentication Handbook. He also provides product management consultancy to start-ups and early-stage ventures through Lenatics Solutions Private Limited.