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Project Manager is a manager, it's a role from a formal process (waterfall). Product Owner is not a manager, it's an agile role. You can't compare them directly.

P.S. In real life PM/PO are almost the same -- as people usually don't care about following metodology. PM/PO is just a kind of team's boss.

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I'd say PO isn't so much involved in determining the "what" to build, they are moreso executing on it. engineering manager is more of the team's boss

I support 4 different software solutions each part of a different product team and each having their own product manager. PM is definitely not my boss, just an unnecessary middle man making the total cost of tech more expensive.

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