PM Roles & Responsibilities

What is the Project Manager’s role?

• Planning – mapping out how project will be undertaken. Responsibilities
• Anticipating obstacles & roadblocks.
• Continually determine how to allocate human, technology & monitory resources.
• Provide training to the team.
• PM should be a motivator, cheerleader, possibly a disciplinarian and an empathic listener.

What are Project Manager’s duties & responsibilities?

• Draw up the project plan.
• Interact with top management, line managers, project team members, supporting staff & administrative staff.
• Procure project resources, allocate them to project staff, coordinate their use, ensure that they are being maintained in good working order, and surrender them upon project completion.
• Interact with outside vendors, clients, and other project managers and project staff within your organization.
• Initiate project implementation, continually monitor progress, review interim objectives or milestones, make course adjustments, view and review budgets, and continually monitor all project resources.
• Supervise project team members, manage the project team, delegate tasks, review execution of tasks, provide feedback, and delegate new tasks.
• Identify opportunities, identify problems, work out appropriate adjustments, and stay focused on the desired outcome.
• Handle inter team clash, minimize conflicts, resolve differences, encourage a team atmosphere, and continually motivate team members to achieve superior performance.
• Prepare interim presentations for top management, offer a convincing presentation, receive input and incorporate it, review results with project staff, and make still more course adjustments.
• Make the tough calls, such as having to remove project team members, ask project team members to work longer hours on short notice, reassign roles and responsibilities to the disappointment of some, discipline team members as may be necessary, and resolve personality-related issues affecting the team.
• Consult with advisors, mentors and coaches; examine the results of previous projects.