Foundations of Project Management: Week 2
Project managers oversee projects from start to end and act as coaches for their teams, utilizing their exceptional organizational and interpersonal abilities throughout. Project managers often follow a procedure that includes planning and organization, task management, budgeting, and cost control to ensure that the project is completed on time. Project managers offer value to their teams and organizations in a variety of ways, including prioritization, delegation, and effective communication.
The main ways that project managers can add value to projects and impact organizations are:
- Focusing on the customer
- Building a great team
- Fostering relationships and communication
- Managing the project
- Breaking down barriers
Using productivity tools and building processes is one job that falls under the planning and organizing umbrella. You may need to use certain tools and develop processes to improve information sharing across the team during the planning and execution of a project; you may also need to create plans, timelines, schedules, and other forms of documentation to track project completion, and you’ll usually need to keep those documents for the duration of the project.
The next task involves budgeting and cost control, as well as other considerations. Changes to the plan and budget are unavoidable as the project progresses. This will necessitate monitoring and managing the budget, as well as tracking issues and risks as they emerge and managing quality by minimizing those issues and risks. One method to achieve this is to remove any unanticipated roadblocks that might arise.
Task management is another important aspect of the project manager’s job. A project task is an action that you, your team, or your stakeholders must do within a certain amount of time. Keeping track of tasks is a great way to manage the workload of the team and guarantee that everything gets done. Keeping track of tasks is also a fantastic way to show progress to individuals who aren’t part of your immediate team, such as your stakeholders.
