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What Product Manager can bring to the table?

In every organization, there is a role that requires balancing many tasks and handling high expectations. Product Manager is set for such jobs, one that often goes unrecognized. PMs work behind the scenes to bring teams together, guide projects through challenges, and ensure ideas turn into outcomes. Yet, their efforts are rarely acknowledged in a direct way.

When projects succeed, the spotlight tends to shine on those in more visible roles, like designers or engineers. The person who made sure everything stayed on track is often overlooked. This makes product management a unique role where success is measured by how well things work, rather than by what can be easily seen or quantified.

A product managerโ€™s job is even harder because it involves leading without direct authority. Product Manager motivate teams that may have different priorities, turning broad goals into plans that everyone can follow. They keep things moving despite shifting demands and daily hurdles.

Despite these efforts, many PMs feel they could be doing more. This sense often comes from the nature of their work, which doesnโ€™t produce visible outputs like a finished design or a line of code. Instead, their achievements are found in smoother processes and clearer direction, things that are harder to highlight or explain.

The truth is, product managers play a key part in keeping things running. They connect ideas, people, and plans in a way that keeps progress steady. But if they donโ€™t share their contributions, nobody else will. Without their efforts, even the best ideas might struggle to succeed.

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A note for transitioning from traditional to agile project management

Adopting agile project management? Learn how to excel by aligning team goals, re-evaluating success metrics & fostering collaboration. Say goodbye to traditional constraints and embrace agility for faster results. As a project manager, the transition to agile methodologies can bring about new challenges. Agile emphasizes small teams working in short intervals and continuously learning, which may be a departure from the traditional linear approach to project management that many project managers are accustomed to. However, with the right mindset and approach, project managers can not only adapt but excel in this new environment.

One of the initial steps for project managers leading an agile team is to comprehend the goals and objectives of the organization. By taking the time to understand the reasoning behind the organization’s adoption of agile, project managers can align their team’s goals and objectives with those of the organization. This allows them to demonstrate how organizational agility can aid their team in achieving these goals, and how their team can contribute to the overall success of the organization.

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The dilemma of an entrepreneur acting as a project manager

An entrepreneur who has to also act as a project manager, the days are always filled with a constant act of balancing. In startups and budding businesses, you have to perform those roles side by side. On one hand, you had to lead and manage your teams ensuring that projects are completed on time and within budget, on other hand, you have to focus on growing your business and making sure that it is financially successful as well.

One of the primary challenges I have always heard from people in this dual role is time management, as frankly for an entrepreneur, there are a million things to do and always not enough hours in a day to do them. You have to constantly prioritize and make sure that you are focused on the most important tasks at hand and do not deviate from insignificant activities. Of course, some days such decisions are done right, and sometimes they are not.

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JIRA Workflow for software development and quality analyst (QA) teams

Jira is a proprietary issue tracking product, developed by Atlassian. It provides bug tracking, issue tracking, and project management functions. It is used by over 25,000 customers in 122 countries around the globe. JIRA Workflow is one of the administrative utility for JIRA administrators for managing their task hierarchy.

This blog is to specifically help JIRA based organizations to manage their workflow mechanism to achieve a matured and structured project tracking and management system.

 NOTE: If you are reading this blog, then it is assumed that you have knowledge about what JIRA does and why it is used. The context is to help the software development and quality analyst (QA) teams to start functioning on the core system rather than drawingย their workflow which is sought of standardized across the companies. 
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