Saturday, 14 May 2016

The Roles and Responsibilities of a Project Manager


A project manager is an expert in the field of project management. He/she is solely responsible for the entire life cycle, from planning to execution to managing the risks involved and the closure of a given project. The position of a project manager exists in different disciplines. For e.g. a project manager in the field of information technology will be responsible from developing and testing information networks to the final financial systems. Moreover, the project manager’s function is characterized by a common set of duties and responsibilities. A project manager generally applies these duties to meet project requirements as follows

(i)          Determine suitable products, services and plans with clients or customers in order to define project scope, deliverable and requirements.

(ii)         To develop, modify and put in high level of inputs to make sure that the project plan is carried out smoothly.      

(iii)         Implementation of project plans in order to meet the requirements of clients and to attain the organizational goals.

(iv)         A project manager should able to coordinate and integrate various project activities with team members and also makes sure that the communication level is at the peak.

(v)          He/she should be able to manage, lead and administer different project resources

(vi)          He should possess the skills to monitor the right functioning of all the project activities and must be up to date with necessary resources to alleviate the risks.

(vii)         Maintenance of overall quality

(viii)        Great project managers should make improvements in the project, should be able to resolve problems and take corrective actions wherever necessary.

When it comes to pursuing a career in project management, a project manager’s job may be fascinating with high salaries and huge probabilities of career enhancement. In this profession, meeting and beating challenges are a considerable requirement. Team work plays an important role in executing projects. An effective project coordinator should be able to guide and direct the team to settle multiple projects. A project Coordinator requires definite skills which are as follows

(i)           Technical skills
(ii)          Analytical skills
(iii)         Risk solving skills
(iv)         Communication skills


In Rate Your PM, you can rate project managers as per their credibility and potentiality. One can give good feedbacks as well.     

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