[vinay_ys]

A relatively small number of individuals are required to act as conduits of information – they should be good at collecting, analyzing, organizing and sharing information. They should be good facilitators to anchor a problem/solution across multiple teams/systems/skill-disciplines. These individuals are the PMs. As long as we don't let it go to their heads that they own the product and they are the deciders or some such notion that basically reduces everyone else's problem solving ability, PMs can be very useful.

[gowld]

"Product Manager" means everything from project manager (organizer / scrum master) to client relations manager to product designer (like a game designer who isn't the programmer). This confusion is problematic.