In the era of Agile and Scrum, there are still some projects that follow traditional Waterfall methodologies.
Whenever you talk to those teams about Product Management, the first question that comes up is — “How is it different from Project Management?”
How do you feel about this ongoing confusion between the two roles?

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If there's room for this confusion, is it because there's a 1:1 correspondence between your product and your projects?

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From another company 's projects, where they follow waterfall methodologies.

In a nutshell, a project manager is responsible for the completion/delivery of one or more projects for a given product/software. He/she is responsible for communicating its completion to Product Mgt.
A Product manager is responsible for the delivery of a working product to the market, and its adoption (or adoption of new features) ensuring its users continue to enjoy the benefits of the product.

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I think it varies company to company.

I’m with a small company. I’m the only PM. A lot of larger companies have multiple PM’s, even multiple assigned to one project.

Some companies also blend the Product Manager role with Product Owner.

And this isn’t the only role that gets conflated. Ever looked at various job descriptions/salaries for Business Analyst, for example? It can mean so many things.

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