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• Agile within waterfall world
• Contract with room to evolve, assume the contract will be amended, or be vague enough to not need amendments
• Start without the end defined, only the beginning
• Funding to do x, begin x, define y, deliver z
• Product will live on, but quarterly goals are defined and tracked on progress
• Backlog will evolve, but hit milestone(s) on time
• Scope, Schedule, Budget (the project triangle) applied to market research for what the customer wants (the product vision)
• New title ideas
  • PPM = Project Product Manager
  • PJM = Product(Ject) Manager
  • J – Ject – everything about proJects
  • D – Duct – everything about proDucts
  • PDJM – DuctJect Manager 
• The PPM = SME, understand the product and the customer, and the team, and the features
• The PPM = embedded with development team, value-add to the team, wears lots of hats
• Mix of Scrum, Kanban, Waterfall, get $h!t done, release early, release often
• Technical PPM = SME with technical background, can speak on behalf of engineers, suggest bringing tech lead to meetings, but OK if not there, followup after
• Non-technical PPM: parter up with an Engineering Manager or Tech Lead