Is the product manager suitable to be a project manager?

The product manager and the project manager are both key roles in the project. From the beginning of the project, these two roles run through the whole project. Once you become the person in charge, you must weigh the problem from the aspects of cost, operation and personnel. At this time, it is not only your professional level that tests you, but also your own practice, and actively solve all the stumbling blocks that hinder the project.

Product manager:

Product managers analyze users' needs, then design products and manage the whole product life cycle. The core work of this position has three parts:

1. Analyze requirements, plan and design, and be responsible for the scheme.

How to accurately grasp the customer's needs and put forward reasonable solutions requires mastering a variety of analysis, evaluation and decision-making methods, such as demand analysis, user research, data analysis, competitive product analysis, etc.

2. Implement the plan and be responsible for the process.

How to make your plan come true, that is, to play the role of project manager, so that products can be delivered on time and with high quality, you need to have project management ability;

3. Follow up the results after going online and be responsible for the results.

How to set product goals, how to verify the effect, and how to analyze the effect.

Project manager:

What the project manager needs to do is to manage the product development cycle of the project, including the management of demand, personnel, time, quality and risk, with emphasis on high quality and timely delivery;

Let's see what the project manager should do first.

Directly related to products: making development plans, managing project progress, setting milestones and accepting results;

Indirect related products: organize daily meetings, rationally allocate resources, mobilize team emotions, and handle conflicts between superiors and subordinates.

One of the most important functions is the management of project schedule, so how can we manage the project schedule reasonably?

1, make a schedule.

Make a schedule, including the start and completion dates of project activities, use Gantt chart as a project management tool, decompose the project content, estimate the completion time of the work, and then arrange the work schedule. With the acquisition of more data, the daily activity plan will be improved repeatedly and the schedule will be constantly updated.

2, clear the responsibility of each member.

For the relatively independent key task groups in the project, sub-projects are set up by means of task allocation, and tasks, personnel and objectives are defined, and responsibilities are further defined to ensure the progress of key tasks.

3, monitoring key links

Schedule management is not a static process, and project implementation and project planning are also interactive. In the process of project schedule management, it is necessary to schedule and coordinate constantly to ensure the balanced development of the project and realize the dynamic balance of the whole project.

Pay attention to whether the activity dependency is confirmed correctly, which will directly affect the project schedule, resource allocation and cost. The arrangement of project activities mainly adopts network diagram method, critical path method and milestone system.