What do Project Managers do in the organization?
They should do :
1. Focus on the customers: A key element to successful projects and businesses is understanding your customers.
Ask questions to understand their problems and their vision of the project.
Two types of customer
Internal: stakeholders, team members, resource managers, and...
External: customers outside of our project, clients, contractors, and...
2. Building a great team: This is the project's biggest asset
A project manager should understand the strengths and weaknesses point of team members to know when and how to motivate them.
A project manager should choose the right member to be successful in the project.
A project manager should know project requirements and resources to set team members to project.
3. Fostering communication and relationship: Customers and the building team focus on the foundation of communication and relationships. Treat others with consideration and respect.
Checking daily with team members, seeing how they're doing, and asking if there is anything they need help with can go a long way toward making them feel valued and heard.
4. managing the project: each person is generally assigned specific tasks.
Helping team members to understand the big picture of the project allows them to tailor their tasks to meet the needs of the project and goal.
5. Breaking down barriers: Allow team members to innovate new ways to do their best and empower them to share their ideas. Encourage your team to do the same.
Provide support for your team as they try new approaches to find solutions.
ROLES OF PROJECT MANAGER:
1. Planning and organizing: Making use of productivity tools and creating processes.
Create plans, timelines, schedules, and other forms of documentation to track project completion.
2. budgeting and controlling cost:
Monitor and manage the budget
Track issues and risks
Manage quality
Remove unforeseen barriers
The core skills of a project manager:
1. Enabling decision making
2. Communicating and escalating(call, email, meeting)
3. Flexibility
4. Strong organizational skills
5. Planning and scheduling(templates, workflow, calendar, ...)
6. Collaboration tools(email, software, dashboards, ...)
7. Documentation(files, plans, spreadsheets)
8. Quality assurance(evaluation, productivity, reports, ...)
**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**