From the inception of a project to its successful fulfilment, the involvement of project manager is very vital. A project manager bridges the gap between the client and the project team. In the words of Gido and Clements, the skill set required of a project manager to win the client 's trust and drive the project team are the leadership ability, communication skills, negotiating skills, time management skills, ability to develop people, problem-solving skills, interpersonal skills and ability to handle stress.
On the leadership front, my project manager always tried to work hard to get the really good awareness about the customer 's vision of a product before commencing any project. By having a better understanding of project goals and objectives, it …show more content…
For instance, in leadership qualities understanding the goal is one thing and how to implement it is totally different. How you calculate the work estimates and whom you involve during the implementation stage can make a big difference in the functioning of a project. While performing the efforts estimation and the work breakdown structure, it is very important to involve the project team. But the project manager seldom used to involve the project team leading to the unpleasant situations. The team usually used to ask for more billing hours than what is actually cited in the agreed document due to wrong efforts estimation made for certain activities by the project