What should a project manager know and be able to do?

Question

Career in IT

All good times of the day.
I have a management diploma and little experience in website development (there are 2 projects made by me).
I want to try myself in project management. I like to solve organizational issues, and in general this occupation attracts me.
I know html+css+js.
I have a superficial knowledge of php.
I superficially know what and how different specialists work in both front-end and back-end directions.
Do I need to have technical knowledge?
Will such knowledge be at least for an internship?
Thank you.

Answer 1

I advise you to read "The Novel of Project Management" - an interesting book, and it is very easy to read.
In small companies - you need to know everything, in fact, as a product manager.
In large ones, they mainly manage deadlines, risks, and priorities.
In both cases - to be able to correctly set tasks, work with task / bug trackers, evaluate / manage deadlines.

Answer 2

A project manager is not about programming skills, but about managing people and organizing work, i.e. about programming programmers :) Of course, technical knowledge is needed, but technical knowledge is not in terms of development details, but in terms of the possibility of implementing specific ideas in general, which someone else will implement there. Those. from a technical point of view, you need to know how css differs from js, but it’s not necessary to know how it differs: border-radius and webkit-border-radius, other people who you set tasks should know this, which will sound like this: "this block make cross-browser round corners."
As for your question, "yes they will." Just drop the word "superficial" from your monologue :)

Answer 3

By the way, there is a development program in the direction of "Project Management": changellenge.com/raiffeisen-evolve-pm - there are several specializations, each requires different skills

Answer 4

Do you need the knowledge of a "project manager" for software development though?
to a minimum - you "task decomposition" and it will be enough)
for good - read about methods for software development - Agile, scrum

Answer 5

Manager a high managerial position of a person with experience, there can be no internships there