Project Management Responsibilities

Project Management Responsibilities

• Managing the project's scope, schedule, and cost to support the sponsor's expectations is the project manager's responsibility.
• Communicating roles to project investors is crucial for a successful project.
• Typical duties include managing the development of the communications plan, project charter, risk assessment, and detailed schedules.
• Providing team leadership for problem resolution by working with the lowest organizational levels possible and increasing as necessary.
• Monitoring schedule and costs versus project progress to identify potential problems and re-planning the project as necessary.
• Taking, directing, or recommending corrective action when scope, schedule, or cost variances threaten the project.
• Providing input to the performance reviews of the project team members and negotiating a resolution to team member resource conflicts with their functional managers.

Project Management vs Construction Management

• Project management involves applying knowledge, skills, tools, and techniques to project activities to meet the project requirements.
• Construction management is a project delivery system that uses a construction manager to facilitate the design and construction of a project by organizing and directing men, materials, and equipment.
• Project managers oversee all elements of a project, including manufacturing, construction, and marketing, whereas construction managers are involved in personnel management at the construction site.
• Project managers have more authority and responsibility than construction managers, leading and motivating a team of managers and workers.

Introduction to Project Management

• A project is a unique set of activities that produce a defined outcome, with a specific start and finish date, and a specific allocation of resources.
• The business environment is characterized by change, complexity, and the need for competitiveness, productivity, customer focus, and profitability.
• Executing the strategic vision of a corporation is critical to its success, and projects and programs that deliver on strategic initiatives have varying degrees of success.
• The history of project management dates back to the 1st century BC, with notable figures such as Vitruvius, Christopher Wren, Thomas Telford, and Isambard Kingdom Brunel contributing to its development.
• The 1950s saw the systematic application of project management tools and techniques to complex engineering projects.
• Forefathers of management, such as Henry Gantt and Henri Fayol, developed planning and control techniques and management functions that are still used in project and program management today.