This is how Product Management, Project Management, Business Analysis work together
khalid joharjiSr. Manager, Business Development| Small & Medium Enterprises General Authority01, Saudi Arabia
as a certified project manager, certified product manager (AIPMM) and pursuing to get my PMI-PBA I looked into how PBA guide book try to explain the relationship yet there isn't an integration between the three frameworks.
So, I tried to connect the dots with the following table, listing each process group side by side and trying to figure out which one falls under which one
If you notice in the table, the cycle continue for more projects to come in order to accommodate the growth and maturity levels of a products. which will require the team to repeat the same process all over again
Around here (Saudi Arabia) we usually find BAs move to proDuct management positions and as I go into the PBA guidebook i see more similarities between AIPMM product management and PBA yet PBA goes more in-depth for techniques and analytical methods.
If we can break the table I shared above into activities, I think we can see more similarities and differences at the same time in each level, also if we placed this table into a timeline where we can go deeper into each activities to assign a specific task so we can have a standardized process and procedure to be suggested for organizations. it will help individuals focus and would help HR to distinguish between the roles and responsibilities among product managers and business analysts.
From a holistic view, possibly the main differences between a business analyst and a product manager is that the product manager is usually committed to one product and accountable for it's operational activities, while for BAs once the product is out for public they monitor the overall outcome and check every now and then to see if we are still achieving the need this whole thing was started to achieve. (I think this should be the PMO-SUPPORT role in order to evaluate the BA performance without biases)
on the other hand, the similarities comes in terms of, who should find new problems? new opportunities? who should evaluate the solution? I believe those two areas are the common issues that could be happening in organizations and invite confusion between team members. those things also are concerned with credit so even if it does not sound important who does what, it still somehow effect the dynamics of the team.
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