Product management - Role
SME
(Subject Matter Expert)
A person with deep specialist knowledge of a particular business, technical or operational subject
What's it for?
Provides deep knowledge of a particular subject when a team needs an expert view.
For example…
A payroll specialist explains the unusual rules for backdated pay that the project team would not know simply by looking at the old system
A network SME joins a design review because the project needs detailed knowledge of the organisation's existing firewall and routing setup