Who is a Project Manager?
“Project manager is the person accountable for the success or failure of a project. They are responsible for the planning, procurement and execution of a project.”
Project Manager is primarily the first point of contact for any issues or discrepancies’ arising within the heads of various departments in an organization before it gets escalated to a higher level. The only aim of the project manager is to maintain the progress, improve the mutual interface and tasks of various parties in order to reduce the risk of overall failure, and thereby maximizing the overall benefits and minimizing costs.
Role and Responsibilities
The primary role of a Project Manager is to ensure that everyone on the team knows and executes his or her task well, feels empowered and supported in the assigned roles, aware of the roles of the other team members and acts upon the belief that those roles will be performed.
Specific responsibilities of the Project Manager may vary depending on the industry, company size, company maturity, and the culture of the company.
Some of the common responsibilities to all Project Managers are,
- Developing the project plans
- Managing the project stakeholders
- Managing communication
- Managing the project team
- Managing the project risk
- Managing the project schedule
- Managing the project budget
- Managing the project conflicts
- Managing the project delivery
Project Management Tasks
- Specify the reason why a project is important
- Specify the quality of the deliverables
- Resource estimate
- Estimating timescale
- Estimating Investment, corporate agreement and funding
- Implementation of management plan on to the project
- Team building and motivation
- Risk assessments and change in the project
- Monitoring
- Stakeholder management
- Provider management
- Closing the project
