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Re:Andrew Ng says bottleneck in AI startups isn't coding – i... by dcreater on Saturday August 30, 2025 @02:18PM (#45076854)
Product Management = Big picture product vision. Features and Priorities. Market trends/strategy, Voice of customer

Project Management = Day to day to execution, logistics, resources, schedules. Scheduling meetings, sending out meeting minutes etc

Program Management = Team management towards delivering business goals/product launches on schedule

Where its tricky is the differentiation between project and program management. IMO we dont really need both terms or both roles, causes uneccessary/unnatural separation of responsibilities

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Re:Andrew Ng says bottleneck in AI startups isn't coding – i... by trog on Saturday August 30, 2025 @06:14PM (#45078463)
What actually happens in most (small) businesses is one person gets lumped with all these jobs and the business is regularly surprised they're constantly over-worked and under-delivering
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Re:Andrew Ng says bottleneck in AI startups isn't coding – i... by icedchai on Sunday August 31, 2025 @11:22AM (#45083874)
I often see product and project management combined. Usually it results in mediocre execution on all fronts. The last PM I worked with didn't even understand the product.
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