What is the Role of a Project Manager?

[Ryan Heatherson]

Hi Every Body,
A project manager has to actively define, plan, and create and manage the sequence of activities. He should be able to satisfy task, team and individual needs. The task needs involve planning and achieving team objectives, defining and allocating tasks, and resources, assigning responsibilities to various employees, quality monitoring, and controlling combined with checking performances.

In order to fulfill team needs, the project manager should ensure maintaining the team spirit and uplifting it at critical times, appointing secondary leaders to equally distribute responsibility and to assure timely completion of targets. He should set achievable standards and maintain regulation, develop effective communication system and coordination. Lastly, he should be able to conform appropriately to the individual needs, which include developing individuals emotionally and professionally, creating balance amongst all needs, and finding ways for performance appreciation and rewards.

It's the responsibility of the project manager to take all team members that are assigned by the company to a project, and work with them hand in hand. He should know that all individuals need to be tackled differently and hence he should behave in a way to get the maximum output from everyone with the standardized time limits. However, a project manager cannot carry out his job efficiently and effectively unless he is provided with the required authority by the senior management.

Best Regards.......

[David Morson]

You want to say that planning, organizing, leading and controlling are the 4 key roles of a project manager.
Do you agree with me or there are some other key roles in addition to this.

[khushi]

The project manager's role in a nutshell is the overall responsibility for the successful planning, execution, monitoring, control and closure of a project.

A project manager is the person who has the overall responsibility for the successful planning and execution of a project. He/she must possess a combination of skills including an ability to ask penetrating questions, detect unstated assumptions and resolve interpersonal conflicts as well as more systematic management skills.

Thanks

[olivia751]

Hello,

The post of a project manager is very big and he has a great responsibilities of the work. Mainly a project manager have to perform three main role that are: Task Needs, Team Needs and at last Individual needs.

1- In task needs role he perform the following role:

Attaining team objectives
Planning work
Allocating resources
Defining tasks
Assigning responsibility
Controlling and monitoring quality
Scrutinizing progress
Checking performance

In the task "Team Needs" he perform the task are:

Appointing secondary leaders
Building and upholding team sprit
Setting standards and maintaining regulation
Training the team
Setting up systems to facilitate communication with the team
Developing work methods to craft team function cohesiveness

The project manager role; he should meet his "Individual Needs" as follows;

Developing the individual
Balancing team needs and task needs
Balancing team needs and individual needs
Performance appreciation and rewards
Helping with other team members personal problems



Regards,
Olivia