THE HUMAN SIDE OF PROJECT MANAGEMENT
The Roles of the Project Manager
Definition: “A project manager is the person responsible for leading a project from its inception to execution.” (Techopedia, n.d.)
Project management consists of at least one team of people and like all teams they need a leader or manager to function effectively. This leader or manager is generally referred to as the “Project Manager”.
“The term Project Manager is used in numerous industries that produce products and provide services including construction, architecture and IT to describe someone who has the responsibility for the full life cycle of a project.
The Project Manager takes the lead from initiation through planning, design, execution, monitoring, controlling …show more content…
(Successful Project Management, 2010)
Responsibilities of a Project Manager
The project manager is responsible for ensuring that each person on the team knows their role, knows they have the managers backing in the role, knows other team members roles and is confident in the other team members ability to complete the project. (Russell, 2011)
To ensure the successful completion of a project the project manager is ultimately required to deliver it on time and on budget. They must also deliver it to the organisations expectations, although this involves several other stages. Depending on the type of project, the role of the project manager can vary from one industry to the next. However, many central activities stay the same, for example:
• Developing of schedules and time scales
• Costs are estimated accurately and targets are met within the outlined cost plan
• Quality - deliverables are being completed to defined expectations, first …show more content…
Even with top project management training, a project manager without the ability to ask the right questions, good delegation and overall general management skills, would face a huge challenge to successfully complete a project.
Some of these key soft skills are:
• Be a good team and individual leader
• Possess excellent oral and written communication skills
• Be able to resolve conflicts within the group
• Have good negotiation skills
• Have superb delegation methods
• Be a good coach and mentor
(Bayram, 2013)
Project Management Duties.
A project manager must regularly carry out tasks and activities in the lifetime of the project as part of his duty, in order to meet his responsibilities to his employer. Some of these duties will include:
• Produce a progress report monthly
• Review the risk register monthly
• Weekly communication meetings with Team Principals
• Review weekly progress reports of Team Principal
• Weekly telephone updates to the sponsor
• Induct new team members into the project
• Market the project internally
• Keep a project blog
(Successful Project Management,
The Roles of the Project Manager
Definition: “A project manager is the person responsible for leading a project from its inception to execution.” (Techopedia, n.d.)
Project management consists of at least one team of people and like all teams they need a leader or manager to function effectively. This leader or manager is generally referred to as the “Project Manager”.
“The term Project Manager is used in numerous industries that produce products and provide services including construction, architecture and IT to describe someone who has the responsibility for the full life cycle of a project.
The Project Manager takes the lead from initiation through planning, design, execution, monitoring, controlling …show more content…
(Successful Project Management, 2010)
Responsibilities of a Project Manager
The project manager is responsible for ensuring that each person on the team knows their role, knows they have the managers backing in the role, knows other team members roles and is confident in the other team members ability to complete the project. (Russell, 2011)
To ensure the successful completion of a project the project manager is ultimately required to deliver it on time and on budget. They must also deliver it to the organisations expectations, although this involves several other stages. Depending on the type of project, the role of the project manager can vary from one industry to the next. However, many central activities stay the same, for example:
• Developing of schedules and time scales
• Costs are estimated accurately and targets are met within the outlined cost plan
• Quality - deliverables are being completed to defined expectations, first …show more content…
Even with top project management training, a project manager without the ability to ask the right questions, good delegation and overall general management skills, would face a huge challenge to successfully complete a project.
Some of these key soft skills are:
• Be a good team and individual leader
• Possess excellent oral and written communication skills
• Be able to resolve conflicts within the group
• Have good negotiation skills
• Have superb delegation methods
• Be a good coach and mentor
(Bayram, 2013)
Project Management Duties.
A project manager must regularly carry out tasks and activities in the lifetime of the project as part of his duty, in order to meet his responsibilities to his employer. Some of these duties will include:
• Produce a progress report monthly
• Review the risk register monthly
• Weekly communication meetings with Team Principals
• Review weekly progress reports of Team Principal
• Weekly telephone updates to the sponsor
• Induct new team members into the project
• Market the project internally
• Keep a project blog
(Successful Project Management,