When I was at Apple (during the interregnum between Jobs’ reigns) we had people called product managers, but yeah they were mostly about getting the product to market and interacting with the market.
We had project managers who nominally controlled product design decisions. We had test managers in a separate testing directorate (I was one of those).
My experience was that the three managers worked together to define the product, with the product manager trying to represent the market, the project manager representing engineering, and test manager asking pointed questions.
We had project managers who nominally controlled product design decisions. We had test managers in a separate testing directorate (I was one of those).
My experience was that the three managers worked together to define the product, with the product manager trying to represent the market, the project manager representing engineering, and test manager asking pointed questions.