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Project Manager's Responsibilities
Project manager is the person accountable for the project accomplishment and achieving the project goal. The main project manager's duties are:
- Defining clear and reachable project objectives
- Setting the project requirements
- Making a detailed action plan composed of manageable tasks
- Building (and sometimes hiring) a team or teams
- Daily monitoring of the work and applying corrective action when necessary
- Reporting the project progress to the sponsor or senior management
- Pre-delivery project evaluating
- Closing down the project after the delivery
So, project manager is a very demanding and responsible position. Project manager should control human, time and physical resources, organize effective teamwork, keep an eye on the project progress and make reports to the superiors.
Project Manager's Software
Let's see what software tools can help a project manager cope with the job. Project manager needs to define project goals and reduce them to a list of tasks. Task management software is an important project manager's tool.
Project manager has to delegate duties to team members, assign tasks and create a schedule of works. So, scheduling is the next demand.
Establishing effective collaboration within each team and between teams is very important for successful and timely project accomplishment. So, project manager's software should include team management functionality.
Project manager have to be in control of the workflow. It's important to see the statuses of the tasks and re-assign them if necessary, see what tasks are finished, what are in process and what are unbegun. |