Andrii Pastushok “Product vs project vs BA”

1. Product Manager vs Project
Manager vs Business Analyst
Andrii Pastushok PMC-VI, TOGAF, ITIL, CISM

2. Roles Description

3. Product Manager
A product manager communicates product vision from the highest levels of executive leadership to
development and implementation teams. The product manager investigates, selects, and drives the
development of products for an organization, performing the activities of product management.

4. Business Analyst
A business analyst (BA) is someone who analyzes an organization or business domain (real or
hypothetical) and documents its business or processes or systems, assessing the business model or its
integration with technology.

5. Project Manager
Project managers have the responsibility of the planning, procurement and execution of a project, in any
undertaking that has a defined scope, defined start and a defined finish; regardless of industry.

6. RACI

7. RACI Rules
● At least one Responsible and exactly one Accountable person are designated for each task.
Optional Consulted and Informed roles may also be denoted.
● Very often the role that is accountable for a task or deliverable may also be responsible for
completing it

8. Management = Accountability

9. Analysis ≠ Accountability

10. Scrum Product Ownership

11. When you do your Boss job,
should you be a Boss?