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Life of a Microsoft Program Manager

Chris Pratley describes what a Program Manager does over at Microsoft.

Sounds a lot like what I do every day, and what I like most about my work. Sometimes I wish I could focus solely on this role, trying to match up customer / market demands with designers and developers through various methods and means of communication.

He defined his role as a person who would go and figure out what these marketing people were really talking about and understand the customer needs or business problems so he could interpret those into actions the dev team had to take using his technical knowledge of what was possible and what was hard.

Unfortunately I have to do a lot of other stuff as well, like sales and marketing related activities. I do really enjoy those parts of my job too but sometimes it gets distracting. What can I say, I am easily confused. ;)

Chris Pratley - Program Managers - they not only pick up and run with the ball, they go find the ball

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