Differences between product managers and project managers-a series of articles on Project Management

This article describes the differences between project managers and product managers to differentiate these two concepts.

 

The project manager is mainly responsible for the project and plans, executes, and monitors the project to achieve the project goal. The product manager is mainly responsible for a specific product and should be very familiar with the features, appearance, and performance of the product. This is a major method to do a good job in the product. The project manager should communicate with stakeholders such as the overall project content, specific scope, project time, project cost, quality, project team management, and customer, and project risks, project-related procurement needs to be well implemented. This is a collection of methods for successful projects. Product managers need to do a good job in market research, product line comparison, customer requirements, and user needs. In short, the project manager's responsibility is simply to make the project successful, and the product manager's responsibility is to make the product the ultimate, so that more people can use it.

 

Specifically, the product manager plans the product and then implements it by the Project Manager. In this case, the product manager can consider the customer and user of the project to be responsible for completing the functional and non-functional requirements of the project and submitting the solution to the project manager. The Project Manager then organizes the project team, prepares the project plan, and supervises the project team for implementation. This project model is similar to that of a common project manager, except that the project requirements are compiled by specific personnel. In fact, the product manager seems to have less to do than the project manager, but its requirements are the key to determining the specific content of the product. What the project manager does is to adapt various mobilized project resources to the product implementation, so that the product can be used better and more suitable for users of the product.

 

We can say that the product manager is the nanny of the product, and the project manager is the nanny of the project. The product manager works on a product. The Project Manager works around the project. After the product manager has planned the product, the project manager's role can play a role. In actual product development, various resources of the project team are centered on the product manager. What this group of people has done is to take care of the baby, so that it can better meet the user's usage habits or create a domain standard or a usage habit. This is something you can know through user surveys and market surveys. In addition, this is the user experience that can be purchased by those research institutions. The nanny theory is mentioned here. I don't know if anyone can accept it.

 

Finally, the product manager and the Project Manager complement each other. Without the project manager, the product manager cannot implement the content. Without the product manager, the Project Manager cannot know what to implement. Of course, it takes some time and patience and perseverance to make a good product. A project also requires the joint efforts of the project team members. Examples of complementing each other are not listed here. The difference between the product manager and the Project Manager is briefly introduced here. I hope it will be helpful to my subsequent work scope and concepts, and I hope this article will be helpful to you.

 

 

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Differences between product managers and project managers-a series of articles on Project Management