The program manager role is to make sure the project includes the features required by the users. While the project manager's role is to make sure the project is delivered on time and budget.

These two roles can represent conflict of interest and they will probably be better served if they are assigned to two different people.

As Terry mentioned, take a look at the definitions that come in the MS certification exam.

>I'm looking for some 'boilerplate' definitions for Program Manager and Lead Developer, especially in an organization that produces a fairly sophisticated vertical market software product.
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>Our staff is fairly small, and there's a *chance* that a particular individual may have skills that fall into both [based on my general hunch of what a Program Manager does].
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>Any place I can go to that has some good definitions for both?
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>{And by this, I mean 'Program Manager' as opposed to 'Project Manager'. We already have a staff project manager}
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>Thanks,
>Kevin