Project Manager's Business Guide Series II: Understanding responsibilities (Agile development, experts and miscellaneous)

This is the first article in the Business Guide series of the Project Manager. (1) preface and project nature; (2) Recognition of responsibilities; (3) Understanding of customers; (4) Understanding of negotiations; (5) Understanding of project progress; (6) Understanding of remittance; (7: push the project to an unbeaten position)

Understanding responsibility

The name of this series is the Business Guide of the Project Manager. Why do we need to manage project management and business sales? Let's talk about another thing.

Most of the current project managers are normalProgramMember. So, is there a project that is ideal for returning to programmers? Certainly not much. Why is it that no one is willing to throw away the responsible technology for "management work originally done by others? Of course, it is not because you want to take the management responsibility. This is because you want to maintain the management right.

Similarly, project managers often complain that they do not have business power. When they take over the project, all the causes and consequences have been finalized. when the project is not easy to complete, I try to pay back for half a day without my own copy. However, it is rare to see that project managers complain that there is no business responsibility. Everyone wants to push their responsibilities to sales. This is the root cause of project managers having no business power and interests.

Therefore, responsibility should be viewed from the perspective of unified responsibility and rights.

Understanding professionalism

Some other project managers said: I want to be a professional project manager and don't want to be a miscellaneous. But if you ask: What are your professional skills in project management? I cannot answer the question again.

If we don't look at this contradiction from the perspective of laziness and fear, but from the perspective of "how to become a professional project manager", what should we do?

The definition of "expert" on Baidu entries is as follows:An expert is a professional who has professional skills and relies on such skills for a living.

Many people regard it as "possessSingle or even singleSkills and professionals who rely on such skills and health are clearly incorrect.

In fact, the best programmers must be familiar with the business; the best product managers must be familiar with the market; the best project managers must be familiar with the business.

Business skills are one of the professional skills required by the project manager. Sales personnel must use the project management skills to enhance their business skills;Project managers must use business skills to enhance their project management skills..

Understanding the nature of a project

We mentioned in the previous chapterA project is essentially a mutually beneficial transaction and a process of purchasing value..

The former requires usProjects must be viewed from a transactional perspectiveWithout business knowledge, it is impossible to complete.

The latter asks usView projects based on "value" rather than "Progress, quality, and cost". Isn't progress, quality, and cost a value? Yes, no. It is easier to use "isn't the function and price of a mobile phone a value?": there are few features in the world, and expensive mobile phones are selling well, there will be projects with low progress, poor quality, and high costs to be paid back.

 

Here, it basically shows that business is indeed the most important auxiliary knowledge of project management.

However, the most annoying person in the eyes of developers is sales, which is more annoying than sales. How can we overcome psychological barriers and deal with customers? Next articleArticleI will mention this.

 

 

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