An experienced project manager is the backbone of a successful product. The performance of the project manager directly affects the success rate of the entire project. Project managers not only manage tasks but, most importantly, thoroughly guide the team toward the project goals. Being a great project manager requires interdisciplinary approaches and the ability to master both hard and soft skills.

Our project managers come from project management, product management, IT, or software development backgrounds. With a good technical knowledge the interaction with the team becomes more efficient. It means right questions are raised, that there’s a contribution of ideas to technical and business-related discussions. Most importantly, technical skills help project managers to evaluate the feasibility of the desired feature to a specific product and design a strategy for its future implementation.

With a good project manager you also get strategic and business advice. It includes in itself a lot of things from being able to conduct proper market research, business planning to communication with your stakeholders. Every project manager deals with these tasks daily, starting from the planning stage, where you evaluate the feasibility of a feature and the value it will bring to an end customer to understand the long-term goals of a business to which you will align its further strategy.

The project manager also brings a set of leadership skills to the project. To quickly deal with problems, achieve positive results, and adapt to the changing environment. A project manager is not only someone who follows processes, creates tasks in Jira or Trello, or communicates with a client. A project manager is a person who can predict possible risks well in advance, eliminates them, and maximizes the team’s results. A good project manager also identifies skilled team members and make talents thrive.