What are the main responsibilities of a project manager in a software company?

The job responsibility of the project manager is to be responsible for the project and everything related to the project. Project managers have different roles in different organizations. There are three main types of project managers: matrix project managers, functional project managers and project project managers.

Generally speaking, the project manager's work includes five process groups of project management, from project initiation to project planning, to project implementation, project monitoring and to project completion. Including ten knowledge fields of project management: project scope management, project integration management, project time management, project cost management, project communication management, project human resource management, project procurement management, project quality management, stakeholder management, risk management, project analysis and decision-making. However, in the actual project, according to different project types, the management content of the project manager will increase or decrease.

In matrix projects, the responsibilities of the project manager are mainly project communication and project promotion;

In functional projects, project managers need to pay more attention to the cost, stakeholders, time, integration and scope of the project;

When it comes to project-based project management, the responsibilities of the project manager include more contents, covering all ten knowledge fields of project management and process groups of project management.

As a software project manager, my main responsibilities are:

1. Responsible for the management of project establishment, demand investigation, demand analysis, system development, system deployment and implementation;

2. Responsible for project team management and project development, including determining the work arrangement of project personnel;

3. Prepare the project development plan; Identify and control project risks; Effectively control the project development process and project quality;

4. Participate in the project evaluation meeting;

5. Effectively manage project resources and provide all project members with sufficient equipment, effective tools and project development processes;

6. Communicate with customers, effectively control customers' needs, and solve the quality problems and management problems encountered in the project development process;

7. Responsible for the collection, sorting, archiving and preservation of project data.