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A PM's day

What are the Program Managers @ Microsoft up to? Sometimes I ask that question myself, what did I actually do today?

Following a colleague’s advice, I decided to log one day of my Program Management life; I’ve omitted many ‘must do’ activities such as having breakfast, lunch, etc :)

6:30am Conf. call with India Developers
7:30am Read news/posts on the CRM space
8:00am Email
9:00am Feature related meeting
10:00am Bug triage/Project management
11:00am Feature design
1:00pm Bug triage/Project management
1:30pm Email
2:00pm Bug triage/Project management
3:00pm Technical training
4:00pm Community/newsgroups
5:00pm Bug triage/Project management
6:00pm Feature design
7:00pm Email
8:00pm news/community/newsgroups

Fun?...a bit I won’t lie; I like my job for the most part :)

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