Comments on: Is Being A Product Manager At Coke The Real Thing? http://www.theaccidentalpm.com/product-manager-jobs/is-being-a-product-manager-at-coke-the-real-thing Home Of The Billion Dollar Product Manager Where You Too Can Learn To Be A Wildly Successful Product Manger Fri, 03 Sep 2010 13:14:42 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc By: Mac Mohan http://www.theaccidentalpm.com/product-manager-jobs/is-being-a-product-manager-at-coke-the-real-thing/comment-page-1#comment-100 Mac Mohan Thu, 06 Nov 2008 16:20:13 +0000 http://www.theaccidentalpm.com/?p=176#comment-100 Thanks for all your views, but what i have observed is sometimes the men at top start seeing product management team having more time as the release gets half way done.. I guess the view is requirement elicitation is done, bringing cross functional teams to get those requirements imbibed is done.. so our product managers should have time.. so why not find out by scheduling their activities Thanks for all your views, but what i have observed is sometimes the men at top start seeing product management team having more time as the release gets half way done.. I guess the view is requirement elicitation is done, bringing cross functional teams to get those requirements imbibed is done.. so our product managers should have time.. so why not find out by scheduling their activities

]]> By: Dr. Jim Anderson http://www.theaccidentalpm.com/product-manager-jobs/is-being-a-product-manager-at-coke-the-real-thing/comment-page-1#comment-99 Dr. Jim Anderson Thu, 06 Nov 2008 14:11:10 +0000 http://www.theaccidentalpm.com/?p=176#comment-99 David: bingo! Thinking about a Product Manager as the CEO of the product is the key - your career lives & dies based on the success of your product. Project managers don't live with the same risk - there is always another project for them to work on... David: bingo! Thinking about a Product Manager as the CEO of the product is the key – your career lives & dies based on the success of your product. Project managers don’t live with the same risk – there is always another project for them to work on…

]]> By: David Locke http://www.theaccidentalpm.com/product-manager-jobs/is-being-a-product-manager-at-coke-the-real-thing/comment-page-1#comment-98 David Locke Thu, 06 Nov 2008 09:27:38 +0000 http://www.theaccidentalpm.com/?p=176#comment-98 Product managers should be managed by someone with a strategic, rather than a tactical view. A product strategist is the usual owner, if not the company executives, of the cross product integration that a project manager wouldn't necessarily see. Project managers would treat a product manager as their customer. Product managers would be too busy to do the project manager's job. Since the product manager is the CEO of the product, their scope is wider than the project manager, whose scope would be limited to development. The product manager's scope runs across the entire enterprise with development being only one amoung many that the product manager must interact with. Product managers should be managed by someone with a strategic, rather than a tactical view. A product strategist is the usual owner, if not the company executives, of the cross product integration that a project manager wouldn’t necessarily see. Project managers would treat a product manager as their customer. Product managers would be too busy to do the project manager’s job.

Since the product manager is the CEO of the product, their scope is wider than the project manager, whose scope would be limited to development. The product manager’s scope runs across the entire enterprise with development being only one amoung many that the product manager must interact with.

]]> By: Dr. Jim Anderson http://www.theaccidentalpm.com/product-manager-jobs/is-being-a-product-manager-at-coke-the-real-thing/comment-page-1#comment-92 Dr. Jim Anderson Tue, 04 Nov 2008 16:54:36 +0000 http://www.theaccidentalpm.com/?p=176#comment-92 Mac: first off, thanks for being a regular reader! Secondly, the answer is "it depends". I've had it both ways with mixed results. Having a product manager be the boss for other product managers has the advantage that he/she should know what they are going through (no respect, changing requirements, etc.) and should be able to support them. The danger here is that a boss who was once a product manger may not be able to keep his / her hands off of your product - "do it this way". Micromanaging is a real possibility. I think that the key to success is to make sure that a product manger who is going to mange product managers has so much to do that they can't interfere with the day-to-day product management activities. Then this could be a great way to organize a product management team...! Mac: first off, thanks for being a regular reader! Secondly, the answer is “it depends”. I’ve had it both ways with mixed results. Having a product manager be the boss for other product managers has the advantage that he/she should know what they are going through (no respect, changing requirements, etc.) and should be able to support them.

The danger here is that a boss who was once a product manger may not be able to keep his / her hands off of your product – “do it this way”. Micromanaging is a real possibility.

I think that the key to success is to make sure that a product manger who is going to mange product managers has so much to do that they can’t interfere with the day-to-day product management activities. Then this could be a great way to organize a product management team…!

]]> By: Mac Mohan http://www.theaccidentalpm.com/product-manager-jobs/is-being-a-product-manager-at-coke-the-real-thing/comment-page-1#comment-91 Mac Mohan Tue, 04 Nov 2008 16:39:26 +0000 http://www.theaccidentalpm.com/?p=176#comment-91 Hi, I am a regular reader of your blog, and would love to know your opinion on whether a group of product managers should be managed by a project manager?? Appreciate your time and comments Hi,
I am a regular reader of your blog, and would love to know your opinion on whether a group of product managers should be managed by a project manager??

Appreciate your time and comments

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