While positions in the Dev/Test discipline at Microsoft are straightforward to understand for newcomers, this is not exactly true for the PM (program management) discipline. It's not the same thing as project management and relies much more on a technical side.

 

Steven Sinofsky already detailed what program managers do at Microsoft. My contribution here is a "verb blitz": what are common actions performed by PMs? Here you have a list compiled from some colleagues:

 

BR,
-- AFurtado