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This tag should be used for questions about Product Management roles and responsibilities within a Project Management framework or context. Questions about the Product Management profession unrelated to project management are off-topic for this site.

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Is a Partner Manager role different from a Project Manager role?

A project manager's goal is to ensure project closure. A project manager is teleological. and consequentialist The project manager's worries are scope/schedule/quality. I don't work as a partner mana …
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How to manage client feedback during wireframe phase

As others have said, a core part of your job as project manager is establishing scope with the client and managing/maintaining that quote. There is no easy answer to this question; clients who are on …
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How many project managers are needed to change a lightbulb?

There is no change request for the prior lightbulb; the change from "lit" to "dark" was not authorized. I have tasked the team from seven parallel lines to perform an root cause analysis and produc …
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Difference between "Earned Value" and "Contribution Margin"?

I'm a bit confused. These terms come from two quite different disciplines. Contribution Margin is used in management accounting and is the marginal profit per unit of sale. I've never encountered co …
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PMP/PMI and other similar classes

Contact your local PMI chapter. Our chapter provides scholarships for classes. And members may be willing to loan you books that they used to prepare for the exam. Your local library may have books …
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What are the required documents should I prepare In order to start my Project

That's a very perceptive question. The first document you should develop is your Project Initiation Document (or project charter as it is more commonly known). BUT the value of the project charter …
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What is the difference between requirement and scope?

I respectfully disagree with @DavidEspina. I don't think his answer is fundamentally wrong, but it doesn't match my answer. During project initiation (or in some contract work, prior to project initi …
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Product launch failure

Risk management If I were in your shoes, I'd conduct a pre-emptive postmortem. Sit the team down and start with the assumption that you have just received the email from management. Ask the team to …
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How do I facilitate an effective planning meeting with a remote team?

Sounds like you are moving away from agile. Because the team isn't following your process expectations, you are proposing reducing their role to that of ratifier. That will undercut their engagement …
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