Product Management vs Project Management

If you are like me, you must have been seeing open product management and project management roles that have very similar descriptions if not the same. This must have left you wondering what the difference is between both.

The truth is that the skills needed in project management are some of the skills used in product management, but this does not mean that they are the same thing, they indeed have overlapping skills, but their responsibilities differ.

Project managers (resource scheduling and risk management):

• Clearly defined project, timeline and budget.
• Fully aware of the goal and the constraints they are working on.
• The project they manage has an end

Product managers

• No predefined goals. This is because the efforts to improve a product are not a one-time endeavour.
• Their work comprises several projects that work together to achieve an ongoing objective
• Creating strategic roadmaps and visions and setting goals and requirements