
This Saturday I am leaving for the US-based course on Product Management. So I thought it could be a good idea to share my thoughts on the difference between the product management and the Agile Product Owner (Scrum) or Customer (XP) role.
Background
I come from software development. I was an engineer, system analyst, engineer again, senior engineer and chief engineer of the department for a decade. During last several years I was learning and practicing Agile and especially Scrum as a local consultant, evangelist, propagandist and Scrum Master. As permanent readers might remember earlier this year I moved to Product Management hoping to be able to help with the effective prioritization issues and Product Manager position seemed to be the easiest path for playing the Scrum Product Owner role. I indeed became a co-Product Owner for a development team. However, naturally I started spending some time on figuring out the "general Product Management" as well.

Last week while 