What should project management know and be able to do?

Question

Project management

Hello everyone, explain what project management should be able to and know, what programs to use, I'm new to this issue, but I want to understand the essence of project management'a.

Answer 1

The bottom line is to remove all obstacles in the way of the team's work.
Obstacle 1 - communications, developers do not want to do this, so we must do it for them, to understand what the customer needs.
not enough to understand the customer, we must also explain to programmers / designers in their language what the customer needs. From this point we get the following:
1) Communication is our everything.
2) Speaking the same language with the team is vital
A well-written TOR - minus a dohrelion of man-hours of work and tons of nerve cells, remember that even if the TOR is written perfectly, the programmer will still say that it is crappy (so that the PM does not relax, otherwise the manager is here ...)
Calendar plan, Jira and co - our bros, plan milestones and sprints and follow the plan, but without addiction, no need to anally punish everyone around for being overdue by 1 hour.
In all projects, there are risks that must be taken into account so that in the middle of the project it does not turn out that it is impossible to implement an important feature for the business at all, create a list of risks and lay a budget for them, and not just write down the risks and forget, but manage them - always there are symptoms that the risk will come here, the ability to see these symptoms in time can save the project.
Well, of course, the PM is a manager who can manage the team, the mood of the team, manage conflicts (artificial) or neutralize them if they are negative.
A moment of useful reading - tips for novice project managers