The project manager is a copy of the software development team, his responsibilities are:
× Leaders you define a successful product.
× Boot everyone's deep expectations and beliefs on product injection.
× Lead team will be achieved, and become a foreseeable product.
To define the "Project Manager", it is better to define the "project manager is not what", it is relatively simple. The role actually played by a project manager is not the normal personality that the average person is intuitive.
The project manager does not have (or only very few) formal power or status, so that at least the beginning, the project manager usually feels very anxious. Stupid project manager may think that his work is to write software specifications, let other people write procedures, test procedures, write files, etc., and finally complete the ideal finished product of the project manager. In the best case, others will think that he is innocent; in the case of the most ring, others will think that he is stupid, and it is not enough to fail. Before the project manager can have any direct control before any value; fortunately, a sound development team will not let this incident, the team members will prevent the project manager from being improperly controlled.
Of course, such an event will lead to some angry and setbacks in the hearts of the project manager, so as high as the higher level, if the superior is stupid, it will lead to a more serious stupid event. (To authoritative, don't hegemony)
