SaaS Project Management

SaaS Project Management for B2B SaaS

SaaS project management gives a B2B software company an operator who owns how work is sequenced and shipped: backlog, sprint structure, dependencies and release cadence, so committed dates hold. The work is measured on cycle time and predictability. A standard engagement is $8,000 a month for 20 to 25 hours, with a 3 month minimum in 2026.

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Who SaaS Project Management Is For

This engagement fits a funded B2B SaaS company between $2M and $15M ARR where the plan is sound and delivery is not. If three of the four lines below describe your quarter, the fit is strong.

Stage

Series A or B, with engineering and product in place and no delivery owner between them.

Revenue

$2M to $15M ARR, where slipped dates are now costing you renewals.

Symptom

Sprints carry over, dependencies surface late, and nobody can forecast a release date with a straight face.

Decision

You are about to hire a project manager without knowing whether the problem is process or priorities.

Not for you if you need a full-time delivery manager in the building, want someone to write status reports, or expect dates to hold without changing how work is committed.

What Changed for Other SaaS Teams

Every figure below is from shipped, measured work in engagements led by Sivan Kadosh as Fractional CPO. None of it is a projection.

Sivan is an excellent product manager, product leader and team member. He cares passionately about delighting customers and is highly capable at all levels from strategic direction to writing detailed documents. I would recommend him 10/10 to any company.
Charlie Markham CTO, Metapraxis
Sivan Kadosh, fractional Chief Product Officer for B2B SaaS companies

Sivan Kadosh

Fractional CPO. 18+ years leading product in B2B SaaS, real-estate tech and fintech. You work with me, not a bench.

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What Is SaaS Project Management?

SaaS project management is the discipline of getting committed work shipped on a predictable cadence. Product management defines what to build; project management defines how and when it gets built. Background reading: the SaaS project management guide.

Project management vs product management

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Project management Product management
Answers How and when it ships What to build and why
Typical cost $8,000 a month, 20 to 25 hours $8,000 a month, 20 to 25 hours
Commitment 3 month minimum, then monthly 3 month minimum, then monthly
Best for A team that cannot hold a date A team building the wrong things
A missed date is almost never a scheduling failure. It is a commitment made without the dependencies understood, or a scope that changed after the promise. Fix how work gets committed and the calendar stops being fiction.
Sivan Kadosh, Fractional CPO, saasfractionalcpo.com

If the problem is direction rather than delivery, read about product strategy consulting.

What a SaaS Project Management Engagement Includes

You get one senior operator inside your delivery process for 20 to 25 hours a month, accountable for predictability rather than for a Gantt chart. That covers the backlog, the cadence, and the forecasting that makes a date mean something.

  • Backlog restructured and ranked, with dependencies made visible before commitment
  • Sprint structure and ceremonies that fit your team rather than a certification
  • Definition of done and acceptance criteria your engineers and PMs both accept
  • Release cadence with a forecast your sales team can safely repeat to customers
  • Delivery metrics instrumented against the DORA four keys
  • Tooling configured to your stack, whether Jira, Linear, Asana, Monday.com or Notion
  • Cross-team coordination so blocked work surfaces in days rather than sprints
  • Handover so the cadence survives after the engagement ends

Adjacent engagements: product management consulting, product development consulting and fractional CPO.

What SaaS Project Management Costs

$8,000 / month

20 to 25 hours a month · 3 month minimum, then monthly

Market rates for this work run $3,000 to $15,000 a month. Wider scope or more days a week moves the number, and I tell you which before you book.

Included

All working sessions, async availability, and written artefacts
No onboarding fee, no equity, no exit clause beyond the minimum

Not included

Design and engineering delivery capacity. I lead your team, I do not replace it.

How the Engagement Starts

01

Product Strategy Session

Thirty minutes on your delivery bottleneck. You leave with the highest-leverage next move whether or not we work together.

02

Backlog and cadence

The backlog is organised and a proper sprint structure is in place within the first two weeks.

03

Forecast and hold

Dates start being forecast rather than guessed, and the team holds them because the commitment process changed.

30 minutes, no pitch.

Bring your roadmap and your retention numbers. You get a senior product read on both.

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What Two or Three Quarters Move

Typical improvement after two to three quarters of engagement. Your result depends on your starting point, team maturity and scope. The delivery figures follow the DORA four key metrics.

  • Strategy-aligned shipped workup to 85-90%
  • NRR improvement+6-10%
  • Reduced feature waste-20-30%
  • Deployment frequency+50-100%
  • Lower change failure rate-15-25%
  • Customer satisfaction (NPS)+15-25 points

What Clients Say

Sivan is an excellent product manager, product leader and team member. He cares passionately about delighting customers and is highly capable at all levels from strategic direction to writing detailed documents. I would recommend him 10/10 to any company.
Charlie Markham CTO, Metapraxis

Sivan is an excellent product manager and I wholeheartedly recommend him. He has created value in a variety of ways, from top-down vision, mission and goal work alongside the senior leadership team, to taking on complex business analysis and wireframing tasks.
Alon Tam Co-Founder and CTO, Livv.ai

Sivan played two major roles at the same time as a CEO and VP Product at Naxex. As part of his role as VP Product, he identified creative ideas, developed sharp strategies and built the road map while focusing on customer experience and business needs. Any company would be lucky to have Sivan.
Danel Levy CTO, Naxex

These and further recommendations are verifiable on my LinkedIn profile, and all 18 are listed on the references page.

Questions Founders Ask

A standard engagement is $8,000 a month for 20 to 25 hours, with a 3 month minimum and monthly terms after that. Market rates for this work run $3,000 to $15,000 a month.

Still comparing options? Read the SaaS project management guide.

Book a Product Strategy Session

Thirty minutes with Sivan Kadosh. Bring the release you cannot forecast. If you go ahead it is $8,000 a month for 20 to 25 hours, with a 3 month minimum.

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Sivan Kadosh, fractional Chief Product Officer for B2B SaaS companies

Sivan Kadosh, B2B SaaS Chief Product Officer

18+ years leading product as CPO and VP Product across SaaS, real-estate tech and fintech. I help Series A and B founders turn product work into ARR, activation and retention without the cost of a full-time CPO.

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