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Product vs. Project management

Product vs. Project management

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Product vs. Project management

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- Hey everyone, welcome back. So you might be wondering to yourself, what is the difference between product and project management? Believe it or not, there are a lot of people out there that think these things are one and the same, in fact, they are not, the roles that is the job titles of product manager and project manager are very, very different. However, Project management as a skill is definitely something you will still need as a product manager. So let's dive right in and talk about the differences between these two. We already know that product managers are responsible for the success of a product, but are they accountable? And what does success mean? Well, success is defined by KPIs or metrics. A product manager is responsible for being successful by reaching certain metrics, and don't worry too much about that right now, we're going to have a whole section on metrics later. So anyways PM's have a metrics…

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