Role of Project Manager
The project Manager (PM), as the name suggest is assigned for managing the project,
which is temporary endeavour, taken by the organization for meeting the challenges of
market, (business needs), the customer needs, and the needs of technological changes, legal
aspects, environment concerns etcetera. The role of PM depends upon the type of project
and the organization.
The very important person for linking project, its
management, management of the business objectives and the customer or sponsor
need, is the Project Manager. (For more understanding please follow PMI - PMBOK
Guide— www.pmi.org.
PM talent triangle suggested by www.pmi.org. clearly define the role abstract of the Project Manager .
PM is a professional who manages the project.
Wikipedia defines professionals as follows:
A professional is a member of
a profession or any person who earns their living from a specified
professional activity. The term also describes the standards of education and
training that prepare members of the profession with the knowledge and skills necessary
to perform their specific role within that profession. In addition, most
professionals are subject to strict codes of conduct and ethics. PMI provide
professional certificate covering these aspects.
The managers utilized the skills and experience, tools and
techniques, in the processes, to complete the work in past projects, and in
doing so they were recognized for their efforts, and as such they became
professionals
Project Manager - Role
(Project Manager - the one individual who has the
administration information in a more extensive region however may not be
excessively profound)
Your working environment is yours. There ought to be
aggregate endeavours to oversee.
Each work environment has program, portfolio, and
undertaking of the board. Your organization is workplace, and so is your home
to take up program, portfolio, and project to consolidate and develop a
platform for achieving the goals and the missions.
The aggregate endeavours are to be done from various levels
in the association. Total Quality People (TQP) assume a significant part in the
association.
However, recall that too many cooks spoil the broth. The
one individual who is assigned to deal with the working environment is the Task
Supervisor, or Manager, or Project Manager, or Project Chief (herein after
shall be called Project Manager - PM)
He utilizes his abilities, instruments and procedures and
experience and the help of individuals, to carryout activities sensibly with
his IQ and EI. (Intelligent Quotient and
Emotional intelligence)
On the off chance, that you are not an undertaking administrator,
or you are project supervisor, in the two cases there is need to work with synergy.
It has been noted that in the organizations, this post is designated to a person based on his participatory technical support or as per seniority list. And most of the time it is seen that he is very qualified person with in depth knowledge in some knowledge areas. Such person is not the right person assigned at a job of project manager. The Project Manager should be a generalist having knowledge of project works, including technical, social, commercial, and environmental aspects. He may have not in-depth knowledge, but have wide knowledge in the application area, along with use of tools and techniques, experience, good interpersonal skills with good communication abilities. He should be supported by specialist members in the team in the various operations of the project.
The project manager should place a plan for execution only
after it is agreed with the stakeholders.
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Those who plan do better than those who do not plan, even though they
rarely stick to their plan, Winston Churchill |
Project Boundaries
The role of project manager is discussed in above context,
inside the boundary of the project and beyond the boundary of project.
The boundary of venture begins from project inception and
finishes at project closure. That is, he starts, plans, executes, controls, and
closes the task. (Inside Boundary)
Before this boundary is sponsor of the task or business
need for which project / venture has begun. Additionally, past the inside
boundary of this venture is the client or end user, for whose requirements fulfilment,
the project is taken up.
As such PM is answerable for finishing of the project to
the sponsor and the end user.
He should know about
inside environment of the project and the external environment of the project and
should be equipped for experiencing the pressing factors from the inside and
outside, for project execution.
Project Management Institute is a pioneer organization in
giving PMP accreditation, worldwide and is must for project manager who need to
dominate in project execution field— www.pmi.org
The PM should work within the boundary of project and pay close attention to the outside boundary of the project for the points mentioned underneath for project completion.
Political Environment
Financial Environment
Stakeholder Management
Business Needs of Sponsor
Project Initiation, Planning, Execution, Monitoring and Control and
Closing the project related to inside boundary of the project.
Integration of, Scope, Schedule, Cost, Quality, Resource, Communications, Risk, Procurement, and Project Stakeholder plan.
Client Satisfaction
Technology change
Artificial Intelligence
Water, Land Environment
Legal Necessities and Enforcement
The tasks are small, huge, complex and they might be
situated at places near the organization and away from the organization, at far
off places or in different nations.
The role of project manager subsequently shifts relying on
the size of the task. In this way, PM may fill in as expediter, as facilitator
or as committed undertaking supervisor, depending on the volume of work and
significance of work.
PM is principally answerable for the execution of the venture, from commencement of the undertaking to closure of the venture, yet according to business need, might be given task outside the boundary of the project.
Information, abilities and Tools and Techniques currently
should be applied on a more extensive region past the project limits to
comprehend the external necessities and adjust them to within project environment.
The project inside environment is especially impacted by
the external climate. Fundamentally, all the venture arranging depends on
external stakeholders needs.
To comprehend the external necessities in a superior manner,
the project manager can adjust them in the venture improvement measures and the
outcome will be as per the general inclination of the client, and stakeholders.
In managing an equilibrium with inside and outside the
limit of the project, the PM and his group ought to associate the external
conditions routinely and notify them with the impact on project, so that the project
dynamics are utilized to manage the changes.
All kind of issues ought to be get recorded according to
their seriousness and maintained in issue logs.
Project Manager should oversee number of exercises inside
the limit and outside the limit of the venture. The inner climate has its own
set principles, determinations and systems and work process is smooth. PM
should ensure it.
The external environment (outside the project limit) of the
venture is additionally set with strategies, methods, and rules to facilitate the
project execution environment.
PM should comprehend and examinations the changes, get
significant data and manage the arrangements in bearing the disturbance and
save the project from the outside pressures.
The task requires managing individuals and the correspondence with them. Relational abilities are significant in managing them. It simply is not getting mindful of these abilities, but the significant perspective is to utilize this expertise.
Following skills may help him in organising project activities in a better way.
What's more, last say is that PM should utilize his IQ and
EI to be effective in his activity’s management of the project and its improvement.
EI is very useful delicate ability for improvement of individual and the group