I’ll be remiss if I didnt point this out in my blog, Jason , who was a GPM at MSFT before landing here at eBay, helped me find a blog post by Steven Sinofsky, senior V.P. of Microsoft Office, on the role of Program Management at MSFT. According to “legend,” the job/function was invented at MSFT by Jabe Blumenthal, and eventually evolved to various Product Management roles at various software/internet companies. So hearing it straight from Sinofsky give a good historical perspective on how the role have changed over the years and how it is today. . . in the end, no one has shipped more code than MSFT . . .