Product vs Project

The Product Manager, is continously striving to improve the product he wants to incorporate any new ideas that he comes across to make the product better. His primary concern is to make a world class product. He strives towards perfection in product quality. His performance is measured against the quality of the product and market reactions or customers feedback. He wants to add features and incroporate all of these feedback. In summary, do whatever is required to make the product more sellable at the earliest possible timeframe.

The Poject Manager on the other hand is judged by various other parameters, He sets a Scope of what needs to be done and derives the

Requirements from that scope. Any requirments that need to be added or changed (to improve the product) is considered as outside the scope. It would require an approval from a change control board. He has milestones to reach, schedules to meet, and deliverables to be given  with a limited set of resources. His performance is measured against these above parameters including Cost. Within Budget, On Time is his motto.

A good relationship between them can create a Synergy resulting in a Win-Win solution for both;