From the course: Program Management for IT Professionals

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Product management checklist

Product management checklist

- [Instructor] Let's discuss the working relationship between program managers and product managers. In some companies, the program manager and the product manager is the same person, but in most companies, a program manager will manage projects and deliverables whereas product managers are more of a product line, customer-facing type of a function. So program managers in general keep people on task, and so, too, will program managers keep product managers on task. And therefore, it's important to establish a peer-to-peer working relationship with a product manager So how to do that. The first thing is to provide some value to product management end as well as marketing. And that can be to organize a knowledge transfer to cover features and functions and constraints to the product management team and to marketing to set them up for success. But you can also task them to do things that contribute to the overall project success, including tasking them to create and review competitive…

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