Roles of a Project Manager in Project Management

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Role of a Project Manager

To understand enough project management, to apply its rigour and structure and ensure your project is successfully completed as required.

The things you must do as a project manager are:-

a)      Ensure there’s understanding why the project is being done and what it will produce.

b)      Plan the project - to understand how long it will take and how much it will cost.

c)      Manage the project - to ensure that as the project progresses, it achieves the objectives you defined within the time and cost specified.

d)      Complete the project properly - to make sure that everything produced by the project is of the quality expected and functions as required.

 

The Project Customer

Every project is done because someone wants it to be. The person who wants it to be done is called a project customer. The customer may be yourself, your boss at work or anyone else you worked for or with. The customer may be one person.

 

In projects, it’s important to understand who the customer is and work closely with them. Project customers have some specific responsibilities in projects.

 

They will be involved in determining why you are going to do the project and what it will produce, for giving access to people and money and make valuable decisions through the life of the project.

 

 

 The Project Team

The project you are about to manage will have a whole range of tasks that need to be done to complete it.

For a very small project, you may be both the project manager and the person who does all the tasks done.

For larger projects, a number of people will be involved at different times in the project life. These people are collectively known as project team. It is this team that will be managing.

There’s a difference between managing people in a project team and the normal tasks of line management. The people in the project team usually have a line manager who they work for on a day-to-day basis. When the project ends, you may have nothing further to do with them. 

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If you saw, you need to be able to manage, motivate and direct the team. This requires you to have a clear understanding of what you need them to do in respect of the specific project you are managing and how much time they should spend on the project.

Critically, you also need to make sure they’re spending time working on the project. The starting point to make this work is to discuss this with each team member, normal manager (line manager) and agree that the team member will be available for the project and under your management control, why they are working on the project.

 

Delivery and Deliverables

Delivery in the context of projects simply means getting the things done to set out to do. Your role as a project manager is therefore to deliver a project.

Deliverables are what is delivered by the project e.g. a new product.

In a project, the deliverables wanted are defined as a result of the project, and your success as a project manager as a project manager is in delivering them in the planned time and their respected costs.

            

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