In a guest post on Washington Regional Association of Grantmakers' Daily WRAG, Forum President & CEO, David Biemesderfer, shares why he is excited to take the helm of the growing organization and to support the work of WRAG and our regional association colleagues in his new role.
A guest post from Nina Stack, President of the Council of New Jersey Grantmakers
The gist of the product teams approach is recognizing that great technology is essential to delivering our programs and creating the impact we want to have in the world. Each key technology system is treated as a "product" and managed by a team comprised of both technology people and "domain experts" who bring in-the-trenches programmatic and business process knowledge. Most importantly, though, products are resourced and managed on a permanent, ongoing basis, not as one-time, "big-bang" initiatives.