Product Manager vs. Project Manager

Acknowledgments

I’d like to acknowledge several people who helped shape this report directly or indirectly. Thank you to Martin Eriksson, Jeff Lash, Melissa Perri, John Cutler, Ernst Oddsund, Chuck Cobb, Chad McAllister, Steve Johnson, and Wade Shearer who spent time with me sharing their experience working in or with these roles. Thanks also to Dave Letendre and Zhanna Ullman who taught me by example what really effective project management is about. And to John Wang who did the same for me in product management so many years ago.

I would also like to thank my daughter, Amanda J. McCarthy, for tirelessly proofing every draft in detail. She makes it look easy.