The following is the difference between technical thinking and management thinking
In daily work, there will be situations where you are both a development and a project manager. Here you must learn to switch roles with ease, so that you can be one person and two roles.
A role switch is essentially a mind switch. Thinking determines a person's behavior. A project manager is not like a project manager because his thinking is still the previous technical thinking, not the management thinking that managers should have. This is like a person in an unfamiliar city, holding an outdated map, looking for his own goal, and the result will only be bumped around and at a loss.
Technical Thinking vs Management Thinking
| comparison | technical thinking | management thinking | ||
| Concern Center | Process-Centric Thinking | Care about each task by itself, not the overall goal. No emphasis on planning and lack of control over tasks. | goal-centered thinking | Start with the end. Focus on the overall goal, the route to achieve, the factors affecting the achievement of the goal, the impact of various events on the goal, and distinguish the key points. |
| structure of things | local thinking | Too much attention to details, no concept of the content and completion route of the entire project work. Just do it when you come up, the work lacks planning and organization. | holistic thinking | The structured analysis method is adopted, from top to bottom, first the whole and then the part. Sometimes brainstorming is also used to expand the details first and then summarize. |
| logical thinking | machine-centric thinking | Simple thinking and straightforward personality. Too much logic in interpersonal issues. | people-centred thinking | People are the main body of executing projects, and they pay attention to the matter itself, and pay more attention to the value of people. Learn to be tolerant and be able to deal with a variety of people with different personalities. |
| Decision basis | perfect thinking | Don't care about schedule and cost, only care about perfect functionality and code, and treat it as art. Often reinvent the wheel of the previous job. | balanced thinking | Refuse to pay, the project does not need art. Balance between progress and quality, between employee individuality and team cohesion, between employees, projects, companies and clients. |
| interpersonal relationship | personal thinking | Individual-centered, individual combat, relying on individual abilities. Stubborn personality, simple working method. | team thinking | You're not fighting alone, and it's much more important to play the role of each member than to put your head down. Focus on team division, cooperation, and morale and cohesion. |
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