What’s the difference between product management and program management? Is the latter considered back office?

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One managers a product, like iPad. This is typically a P&L role. One manager a program, like order to cash harmonization. This is typically a cost center.

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This is helpful, I’ve always wondered what the difference was.

This is posted like every single day.

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Product is the end product, program is the piece of the end product.

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Depends - trying to deliver a product with feature “x” means someone needs to be running feature “x”

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