Project Manager and Product Manager

　　Project Manager in the Internet company, always by the product manager part-time, finished product design, but also worry about project progress, no more time to engage in competition analysis, user research and next iteration design. It is said that most companies separate the product manager from the project manager, does it make the product manager more concerned about the product and ensure the project progress normally? For the project manager and the product manager need not to separate, this is a topic that is known to originate, next let us see the answer that knows the netizen.

Developing a product is a project in itself. But there seems to be little understanding of the project itself, a project that has a clear start and end time, a clear quality control and requirements, a clear input and output budget, which is the core of project management. But it should also be the responsibility of the Product Manager-if the product manager does not think about the time, how can the products be online on time? If he does not pay attention to quality, how can the introduction of the user's popular products? If he doesn't consider input-output ratio (which is exactly what many tech-born product managers disagree about – the good stuff should be invested), It is possible to waste the company a lot of manpower, material and time.

I think the most important thing about Internet company's product development is not the user experience, but the time. This time is not simple to set a certain year of a certain day to line an indicator, but through product quality control, what kind of effect and function, experience, and how to promote the trial, these work have time pointers. Too many people are bewitched by the Apple phenomenon (or Blizzard game), imperfect products are not pushed, but you do not know Apple before the launch of the iphone, the ipod sale, before pushing the ipod, and the imac to sell, even before the imac, and the Macintosh is selling, Jobs had the capital to care about every detail.

Still have the quality, seems the longer, the quality must be better. I do not deny that there are numerous cases of rushing to produce shoddy products because of the rush period. Quality is related to time, but not to a simple proportional relationship. The quality is bad, I just think time control is not good enough. The same one months of development time, a loose team will go all the way forward, the middle of what good ideas will be added, and constantly change, and finally found time too late to launch hastily. A team with a sense of time milestones will be set up, at each milestone, the product's function, experience will be made of what is clearly defined, this stage is to go to the goal, the idea of breaking up in the middle, will also consider the repeated assessment of the time to change and the final output is proportional.

There is input-output, a product manager does not consider input and output is definitely not qualified product manager.

If your company has a special care about the user experience, especially picky, the idea is very innovative, but for the time, quality, cost of these concepts are very vague, we suggest not to ask him to do product manager, can give a user Experience officer title, let him advice, fault.

For some important projects, there is sometimes a project supervisor in addition to the project manager. The main task of supervision is to share some specific work of manager, for example, the control of progress, supervision of quality and so on, but the transaction level, such as he will weekly or even daily statistics progress, check the quality and record, form text, do meeting minutes and form to do list, supervise everyone, basically is a supervision of the meaning. But it does not mean that the manager himself does not need to pay attention to the incident, but from the administrative work to escape.

For internet companies, it may be necessary to set up a supervision for product managers. But the responsibilities of the supervisor should be agreed in advance.

@ Liu Xinzheng

A product manager does not stare at progress, like a mother was just born to throw the child to the nanny, they do not ask, to study early childhood education went, a few years back, the children have been unrecognizable. Own products, how could project managers worry more than you?

@Roy Li

The project manager and the product manager are often confused at home, even the boss can not distinguish.

Simply put, the project manager is a person who works, and the product manager is the one who guides the work.

In view of the Product manager's responsibilities, we are very clear, now mainly talk about PM.

The product manager of a start-up company can be a part-time project manager, but once formed, it is not a good fit, because the project manager needs professional skills and a wealth of experience to report progress to a higher level of management, while directing how to coordinate with other departments and how to communicate with the outside world. This uncoordinated speech often strikes a morale blow to the operations team or Test team, and it also raises questions about the new product.

Imagine that if the status is not done well, management can not assess the completion of the project and various estimates of data, can only shoot the head to make decisions, if the duration of delay, other teams will be seriously affected.

In addition to product development is not only the PM, after the completion of the operation phase because of demand, the product needs to be constantly adjusted, if the PM's work is not in place, there will be problems.

In addition, PM will often play a lot of dealings with the test, and even their own participation in the test.

So excellent PM does not necessarily need to understand technology, products to understand but not fine, to achieve a half the ashes of the user's level. Good PM is generally the ability to organize themselves very strong women, cautious, easy to observe the subtle problems.