[jhwhite]

It seems some people are lumping Product Managers and Project Managers together.

They should be separate roles. And I believe, ideally, if you're in an organization with Product Managers, you shouldn't have Project Managers.

You can depending on the circumstance, but if you're a product manager you're more than likely in an agile environment.

Project Managers deal with projects, a temporary endeavor with a definite start and definite end to accomplish a goal. Products are ongoing things. Prod Managers should be looking for trends in the future of the market, and putting those features on the backlog of the team that's working on that product.

Are Prod and Proj managers going away? I think Proj Managers are. So many bad ones. Prod Managers? I haven't seen that happening actually. It seems more people are moving to Agile and hiring Prod Managers and Scrum Masters.

At least in my area.