It’s a rather sad fact of life that many companies, hiring managers, and even supervisory managers commonly conflate the jobs of Product Management and Project Management. I literally cannot count the number of times I’ve corrected people at a variety of companies, telling them that I’m a “Product Manager” and not a “Project Manager.” In fact, it’s almost become somewhat of a joke to me.
But, in reality, it’s deadly serious. And it impacts our daily jobs by altering the expectations of us as Product Managers.