Wednesday, December 15, 2010
【 Weak current College 】 project manager should assume responsibilities and should have the skills
First, the project manager's responsibilities
Generally speaking, the project manager should ensure that the scope of the project on schedule and within budget, and reached high-quality complete project objectives, so that customer satisfaction (different sources by project, client can be an internal one department or the management or external enterprises or institutions). Therefore the basic responsibilities of project managers is the leading project planning, organization and control work to achieve the project objectives, and project members of performance evaluation.
1. clear project goals
In the project plan, you must clear project goals and customer expectations, on the one hand, to ensure that project goals and business objectives of consistency; on the other hand, to clear the scope of the project with the customer, and consensus, usually it will only enter into contracts before they should explicitly, and project initiation meeting once again to confirm.
Project managers also should ensure that project goals are members of understanding to establish a project team of the common mission and vision, encourage and help project members to project work and personal career plan.
2. develop a project plan
According to the international success of the project manager, he/they have the plans as the primary factor in project success. Develop project plan should be determined by the project managers, project team members participate in conjunction, the setting up of project milestones, decomposition goal. Here, the project members (at least the core project members) on the participation of the project plan is necessary, it makes the program more practical, easy-to-generally recognized, and in the implementation phase can reduce resistance, members in order to achieve the goals as planned more inputs. Usually, the plan should be subject to higher authorities and customers recognized accreditation.
3. establish a project management information system
According to the enterprise it applications level building manual or electronic information system, and ensure that every Member can correctly understand the importance of the timely exchange of information and skilled use of these systems to ensure the project actual process timely access to information and communication. Information Exchange objects including: project team members, project managers, resource managers (for matrix organization), superior leadership or project Steering Committee, as well as on the client side of leadership and members.
4. the establishment and implementation of project management/or system
Project managers also should be responsible for establishing and implementing project management or systems, including the project costs, communication, document management, these systems is a member of the project working guidelines, must be effective follow-up and implementation. 5. project resource organization
Organization of work for the implementation of the project plan to obtain the appropriate resources, and to decide on the allocation of resources to ensure efficient use of resources. Resources include personnel, facilities, venues, and capital, as a result of the project cost and resource availability, resources are often project constraints, typically in developing project implementation plan should be developed with the appropriate resource plan to ensure resource constraints projects for success.
The project manager is responsible for the project members of task assignment, clear the scope of work and responsibilities. Worth promoting practice is to require the responsibility of the members of the project manager has a clear mandate and responsibility to provide a written commitment that this personal commitment in favour of projects to promote and to members of the assessment, effective delivery of project work pressure on Member on project work and positive input, while the project manager shall be awarded to members with appropriate powers.
6. the project team building
Team building--a group of people organized themselves to achieve the goals of the project is an ongoing process, this is the project manager and a member of the joint responsibilities of the project, and project manager in which you want to play an important role. Project Manager should create conditions to ensure that project members can always communicate, and create a good working atmosphere, for example: arrangements for members in the same Office area, support team, held a non-project team meetings, etc.
7. project control
During the course of the project, change and conflict is inevitable. Project managers should make use of project management information system, control the project plan, on the project's process to monitor, grasp the latest information, early detection of problems and quickly take corrective action so that projects can be implemented as planned.
The project brief meeting is supposed to make use of tools, project managers can work through regular checks, timely communication, for advice.
8. the members of the evaluation
The project manager is also responsible for the examination of project team members. The evaluation should be a combination of quantitative and qualitative and quantitative,. If the project members and project managers to check individual undertaking, an undertaking on the basis of indicators, usually including a project task finish rate, cost, quality, working attitude, teamwork, etc.
9. other
According to the specific situation of the enterprise, the project manager's responsibilities also include personnel training, advanced project management tools for the introduction and spread, project management process optimization, etc.
Second, project manager, skills
The project manager is a key factor in the success of a project, you must have the appropriate project management skills to fully play its role.
1. leadership
Simply put, the leadership is through someone else to complete the work, the project manager needs to reach a goal of the project team.
First, the project manager should know how to authorize and assign responsibility, participation and consultative style of leadership, direction and coaching role to play, so that members in terms of giving full play to the initiative, autonomous and complete the project;
Secondly, the project manager should motivate. Because project managers usually have too much power to members for material incentive, therefore, non-material motivation mode is particularly important. For example: with the uniqueness of the project to the project members have accepted the challenge of opportunity can often be on excellent project members play a great incentive; in addition, the members of the project results to the timely recognition. Time is very important, and preferably publicly praised, as in the superiorLeadership or front of the customer specific to the project team or members of the positive assessment.
Third, the project manager should set an example for the Member, demonstrated a positive attitude, become a team model and source of confidence. Item
2. the communication skills
Effective communication is the guarantee of the project goes smoothly. The project, the project manager needs to be maintained through multiple channels and team and subcontractors, on the client side, company superior's regular communication, timely understanding of project process, problems, and get useful recommendations. Communication can be done orally or in writing, such as: interviews, phone, email, meetings, etc. In the communication process, the project manager should be able to ask questions, and make effective listening, frequent standing in each other's perspective.
3. interpersonal skills
Good interpersonal skills contribute to project coordination, avoiding abrupt manner. Coordination is needed at any time, mainly from internal and client projects, may be resource configuration problem or a project scope of adjustment, etc. Interpersonal communication needs from drops, and often occur in the work of the project, the project manager needs to adopt proactive and enthusiastic attitude.
4. ability to cope with pressure
The characteristics of the project determines the project work, there is a certain unpredictability, the project manager needs to be made at any time in the face of pressure and even conflict. Once the pressure or conflicts, the most important thing is to stay calm, avoiding the project. The project manager will have to be willing to solve problems of attitude appears in the team and their superiors or front of the customer.
If you want to project success, the project manager is not allowed to be crushed. Therefore, it has been suggested: the project manager should regularly take part in physical exercise, relax at the right time, maintain an exuberant energy.
5. the ability to train employees
Excellent project managers pay attention to the cultivation of the project members, through the project process promotes staff capacities, promoting employee self development. The project manager to help members to clear their career and skill development direction, assigns the appropriate mandate to encourage learning and mutual exchange.
6. time management skills
When you need in the same window handle two or more tasks, time management is necessary. While project managers often have to face a number of even a dozen or so tasks, visible and effective time management is extremely important. Project manager not only need to manage your time, you need to contact the relevant Department and staff make time usage agreement and minimize unintended time consuming.
In short, qualified project managers not only highly clear their job responsibilities, and have the full project management skills, ability to actively invest project work, just as in the following text describes, he (she) is waiting for something or problem resolution, but ...
Some people make things happen;
Some people make things happen;
Some people wonder what is going on;
Project managers through to happen to lead the project team to achieve goals.
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