Modern management includes a number of disciplines, which combine a variety of functions, from risk management to resource management and marketing. Today we take a look at project management within IT-companies in general, we describe the main functions of the manager (each of which includes thousands of sub-functions and more various tasks) and refute several stable and harmful myths. This article is for beginners PMov, as well as for those who grew up in the manager of a programmer.

Security question: what manager is different from the slave? In fact, the main difference - it is responsible for the outcome. Manager is responsible for the outcome of the whole team. Against this background, any tasks that neither the salary is not the main distinguishing feature between subordinate and manager.

Now let's talk about the functions manager. All five of them:

The main task of the manager - planning process as a whole. Let's take the most simple: for example, begins some startup and task manager - to plan what should be done and in what time frame. "When I need to rent an office? When should I hire a team? When it is necessary to perform a particular task? "A detailed plan determines the completeness and ease of implementation, organizational issues links with the objectives set by the project. How well you proranzhiruete tasks so you can effectively control the flow of the project.

The following function manager - is:

Roughly speaking, here rises everything except people. We need to take care of the workplace, materials engineering. Any competent manager must create the conditions to complete the task in the first place to take care of basic amenities workplace subordinates. This is followed by a formalization of processes and policies within the company, ease of communication with customers, which at times can make the brain itself persistent programmer,