Discussion on development project manager

First of all, the market is roughly divided into three companies

• The first is project-based companies, such companies do not have their own products, each time the whole project to start without accumulation, so the company is the most tired of making money, such a company only need project managers.

• The second is product-based companies that can replicate products in large quantities and then sell them to users everywhere, such companies need product managers and project managers. The product manager needs to control the entire process from demand to sales.

• The third kind of company is the most easy to make money, that is, operating companies such as "PetroChina" such a resource-based monopoly enterprises.

What is the difference between a product manager and a project manager?

The next definition: Product Manager = Market PMand R/d PM, that is, the project manager who solves the marketing needs, plus the development project manager is roughly equal to a product manager.

In the early days of the company only one product, the company owner is basically a product manager. When the company has more products, the boss needs a product manager to be responsible for the whole process of the product because of its limited energy. However, because product managers have a high demand for people, some companies use another method to replace, and market demand for the project manager plus the development project manager to replace the product manager.

Responsibilities of the project manager

This article is mainly about research and development project manager, his responsibility is the most important three points:

• Have a good communication skills.
• Good at coordinating parallel work.
• Efficient decision-making and rapid implementation.

It is important to coordinate parallel work, you need to plan, and realize that parallel work can greatly improve efficiency.

How to lock a target

Four factors that the project manager needs to pay close attention to, stqc-scope, time, quality, cost, also commonly known as many, fast, good, province . Different project requirements, such as

When Huawei started to seize the switch market, time is the most important, your product must occupy the pit for the first time, because it is a very short time to make products, so Huawei this time the switch products are often problematic, often see Huawei developers directly live to the commissioning site to compensate for product quality problems. And later when Huawei's switch products to enter the foreign market, this time the quality of products is the most important. Because once the quality problem occurs, there may be a series of serious claims issues.

Therefore, as a research and development project manager, the first need to have a clear understanding of the product, to recognize the product is the most critical factors, it may be "time", may be "quality", may also be "function".

How to collect requirements

Demand collection comes primarily from customers and competitors. Attention should be paid to a wide range of open-ended issues, such as good memories of the use of historical products, descriptions of experiences with product failures, and so on.

A product only to find a quasi-positioning, some innovation can be successful. Of course, if a type of product has been innovative to nothing can be innovative, such circumstances may only spell the price, as if the current PC industry, Sony why the PC business can not be done, and Apple's Mac instead of the previous sell better.

How to estimate workload

What is the workload and duration, for instance

For example, I eat a meal for half an hour, then I eat the workload is half an hour, and then I and another person chatting while eating takes two hours, this time I eat the workload is actually half an hour, but the duration becomes two hours.

When the workload is estimated

• An activity manager should be allowed to take part in the estimated duration of the activity;
• An experienced person may be appointed to estimate the duration of the project in which it is responsible;
• Historical data can be used as a reference;
• The estimate should be both challenging and realistic.

How to maintain the old products

When the research and development project team completes the product development, may need to carry on the new product development, at this time the relatively good practice in the PDT team selects one or two experienced old staff and then brings several new staff composition LMT (Life Cycle management team) to the old product to carry on the maintenance.

This way, when the old product problems, you can first be handled by the LMT team, the formation of a FAQ, equivalent to a firewall role, so as to reduce the impact of the PDT team into the development of new products.

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