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Product Management

Product management is the overlap of technology, business, and design. It is a generalist function in a business whose day-to-day tasks vary following ebbs and flows of product creation. These can include [[product discovery]], activity coordination, market analysis, customer interaction, communications between various people and functions, business strategy.

"Product" often refers to software, but can also refer to physical goods, or "hard tech".

Joints

Product Management may include or operate with these functions in creation of things. Depending on needs, some items listed in "Primary" and "Secondary" are interchangeable; the abstraction is not absolute.

Primary

  • engineering, development, design or fabrication
  • project or program management
  • business operations ("BizOps")

Secondary

  • [[marketing]]
  • Security and Legal Compliance
  • Customer Success or Service
  • Human Resources
  • Technical Documentation
  • Finance and Accounting