What is Project Commitment ?

In a competing world of business and technology, the growth and prosperity of any organization highly depend on successful project execution. In successful project execution, project management is crucial and the project manager is the sole of project management, responsibly handling and coordinating all intermediatory steps in the development of the project. In this article, we will discuss various roles and responsibilities of the project manager in detail

The Commitment of a Project Manager

Success of a project depends much on the dedication, hard work and skills of the project manager such as team management (selecting a proper team best suited for the project), time and resource management (staffing the members in a manner to let them meet the project deadline in real-time), effective communication (to effectively present its views to the customer and to the team as well) and initiative, liveliness, co-operation to maintain an energetic and charged environment for work.

A project manager is supposed to have a entrepreneur mindset, he works beyond the constraints of 9-to-5 and thus is his commitment. Dedication of the project manager towards the project objective and the quality is very important for a effective project management. Some commitments of project manager includes:

1. Problem-Solving and Critical Thinking: When the time of downfall of the project comes, the project manager uses its critical thinking to overcome the issue.
2. Continuous Learning: In the dynamic landscape of the technology, project manager should be committed towards keeping itself update of the new technologies and learn those which can effectively boost the productivity of the development.
3. Communication: Project manager should have a commitment of keeping an unbiased communication with the team members and the stakeholder, also effectively looking to their feedbacks and resolving the issue.
4. Funds Regulation: Project manager should be committed towards the company in regulating the funds in the development of the project and avoiding unnecessary wastage.
5. Integrity: Since the project manager has the knowledge of what company is working on, so it should maintain the integrity of the information and not leaking it to competing companies.
6. Adaptability: A project manager should be adaptable both in terms of changes in the project objective and also with the team he is working in.
7. Quality Assurance: Project manager should be committed towards delivering a quality end product and should not compromise on the quality for completing the project in time and budget constraint.

What is a Project Manager?

A Project Manager is the person in charge of all the activities involved in the successful execution of the processes involved in the development of the project from project assignment to the final delivery of the desired outcome.

1. He sets the project goals, communicates with the client, performs feasibility tests, prepares project reports, responsible for arranging project resources, tracks team performance, and resolves disputes among team members in arises and what not.
2. A project manager is the person in charge of planning and architecting all the aspects of the project and is also responsible for ensuring the delivery of the product within the specified time and budget constraints.

Skill Set of Project Manager

A project manager has a huge responsibility ranging from planning to documentation, communicating with the customer to managing the whole team, tracking the project progress to keeping the team motivated towards work, along with the theoretical knowledge of Project Management techniques, good qualitative judgment, decision making, decision making, good document writing skill, a number of must have skill sets are required to be a good project manager, some are listed as follows:

Skills of a Project Manager

1. Good Communication Skills: A project manager needs to have an effective communication skills which enables it to present their ideas to the customers clearly, resolve any issue if arises in the team and keep the team motivated.
2. Leadership Skills: A project manager had to manage a team of large members, where different people have different mindset, a project manager needs to handle them all. Therefore, they need to learn leadership skill such as sense-of-responsibility, social-adaptability, co-operation, as these soft skills will enable it to work with team effectively and hence, get work done on time.
3. Team Management Skills: This is the most important skill, a team manager should have which is often underrated, as for different project requires different skills and different people. Thus, it is the project manager who is responsible for team selection and staffing.
4. Negotiation: Negotiation becomes an important skill when it comes to negotiating project budget or deadline with the customers or the deadline of completion with the team, thus, a project manager must have effective negotiation skill to keep the reasonable project budget and real-time project deadlines.
5. Critical Thinking: It comes into play when a project manger needs to take crucial step regarding the project. It helps the project manager to see the long term effect of its correct decision on the future of the project.
6. Risk Management Skill: Being the leader of a team, it becomes the responsibility of the project manager to identify the risk and take necessary steps to mitigate the risk or be prepared to minimize the effects of the risk on the project.

Along with the above mentioned major skills of the project, a good project manager can have a number of qualities like ability to influence the group, liveliness, self confidence, effective intelligence, determination, power of expression as this will help in its faster growth.

Roles and Responsibilities of Project Manager

Roles and Responsibility of Project Manager

1. Project Proposal Writing: Once a project is assigned to work upon, a project manager needs to develop a comprehensive project plan defining project objective, scope and timelines and resources required.
2. Project Cost Estimation: Project Manager needs to negotiate the project cost with the customer keeping the efforts and resource required in the project and also maintaining the quality at the same time.
3. Scheduling: Efficiently allocating the time and resources to meet project deadlines also becomes a responsibility of a project manager, keeping a balance between competing priorities to ensure the optimal use of available resources.
4. Project Staffing: Project manager needs to allocate task and responsibilities to different team members based on their strengths and expertise, ensuring communication between and collaboration among the independent teams.
5. Monitoring Cost and Progress: Project Manager must monitor the project progress, thus conducting regular meetings and effective communication within the team becomes important to ensure that the project is on track, meeting the deadline and is also not running out of cost.
6. Risk Management: Project Manager should continuously assess the project to identify the potential risk that could impact project success and establish mitigation strategies and must also anticipate and manage changes in project scope or requirements in a proactive manner.
7. Team Management: Project manager needs to address issue with in the team, motivate and inspire the team, maintaining a collaborative and productive work environment, must provide guidance and support to the new member, helping them over the challenges ensuring minimal impact on project timeline.
8. Stakeholders Management : Engaging with stakeholders to understand their requirement and expectations, keeping them updated of the project progress, communicating changes and issues effectively.
9. Report Writing and Presentation: It is the responsibility of the project manager to prepare a comprehensive project report mentioning the final deliverable, resources, time and cost needed to develop the project. Preparing presentation for meetings with the customers and team to effectively communicate its ideas and thoughts in front of them.

Conclusion

A Project Manager is the heart of project success. It is his critical thinking resolving the project issue, team management to work together toward a common goal, communication to effectively deliver its thought to the team and customers. It is the project manger to maintain an energetic work environment, keeping the whole team charged and motivated to work with dedication to achieve the deadline. Thus , the role of a project manager is unbeatable when it comes on the growth of the business.