Project manager's responsibilities
Project manager’s responsibilities:
Planning and organizing
- Making use of productivity tools and creating processes
- Create plans, timelines, schedules, and other forms of documentation to track project completion
Managing tasks
- Communicate milestones
- A project task is an activity that needs to be accomplished within a set period of time by you, your team, or your stakeholders
Budgeting and controlling costs and other factors
- The project is on time and within budget
- Monitor and manage the budget
- Track issues and risks
- Manage quality
- Remove unforeseen barriers
Teaching and mentoring
- Take the time to explain expectations to eliminate rework, confusion, and frustration
- Support each individual on your team in meeting expectations and helping them to exceed their own sense of personal potential
Building relationship
- Relationships are everything!
- Getting to know your team members lets them know that you care about them as people, not just as employees.
- Take the time to build relationships and pay attention to the insights they offer you about their work style
Controlling change
- Projects change as you continue to understand the expectations and the needs of your stakeholders.
- Remain flexible and adjust but protect your team from continuous change and rework.
- Document the initial expectations of the project and clearly identify the changes being requested
- Always consider budget and timeline implications of a change
Empowering your team
- Empower the team member to show trust
- Empowerment leads to fresh ideas
- Empowerment is also delegation of responsibility
Communicating status and concerns
- With effective communication you can work together with your team to find solutions to challenges.
- The project manager set the tone of a project
- Maintaining an “open door” policy and building trust with stakeholders will help the success of the projec
A project manager is not often the direct manager of the people working on a project team.
Each person will be an expert on their portion of the project, but no one will be an expert on every aspect of the project.
The project manager guides the team and makes sure they have the support that they need
- Hold your team member accountable for their assigned tasks
- Ensure that issues and risks are tracked and visibile, and establish escalation paths (how to communicate risks at the right people, at the right time)
- Understand and help teammates to adopt the right workflows and project management styles
- Collaborate with other teams at the organisation to deliver solutions that meet the requirements based on project scope, schedule and budget