I think a Project Manager is like the mom of a family – there is no “correct” description of your role but at the end of the day you are responsible to keep the family running in order. Although hard to define the job below are some descriptions that convey’s a PM’s job:
- Bridge the business and tech side of a product
- PM is the middle man, you ensure that the CEO’s vision align with engineers technical abilities to product useful and meaningful products for customers. In other words, these products must not only be strong in its features but also in its user-friendly aspects.
- Create project plans without strong directional guidance
- Working in ambiguity is often the hardest part about being a PM, projects mostly just have a few overarching guidelines and it takes the PM’s brain to fill in the rest
- Connect with other teams to ensure smooth production pipeline
- Often times multiple teams are working together to create a large project and sometimes restrictions and data transfers are needed from another team
- Resolve any conflicts within team
- Mainly interpersonal tasks to make sure team members can collaborate together
- Finalize project at given reasonable speed
– Give milestone tasks for members and teams to reach so project can be pushed into production at a needed date
Question: How to best balance business and technical needs for a project.
