Are you looking for a breakdown on project managers responsibilities so you
actually know what a project manager does, well watch this video because I'm
going to share with you the roles and responsibilities of great project
managers, and if you want to be a project manager ninja stick around to the end of
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that you can ensure yours do not go through any of them. Hi if you're new
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project manager is much more than just overseeing tasks and organizing
documentation, it's actually a very strategic role, and in this video I'm
going to share with you the real responsibilities that a project manager
has when they are running a project, so let's get to it. Project manager
responsibility number one, motivate the team, alright this is extremely critical
because your success is dependent upon your team success, so they need to be
motivated, they're not reporting in to you directly, yes, through the project, but
they have a manager in a day job as well, so it is really important that you
motivate them, how do you motivate them, well you need to have fun, you got to be
clear, on your expectation in your goals, I inject a lot of fun into my session so
that people want to come to my project meetings, and they want to be part of
everything, and if these guys here, my Lego characters, we actually pick a theme
we pick one of them, and we start to have fun with it, I'm also available for my
team, so the key is motivation, get them excited about working on your project
along with all the other stuff that they have to do. Project manager
responsibility number two, keep your team on track, so in order to do this and have
them be really successful, your team needs to have everything that they need
to be successful, which is really your success in the project success, at their
fingertips, so there's a lot of work that a project manager has to do, and that is
the project plan, get your scope, your budget, your timelines, the expectations,
all that fun stuff so you can share with them what it is that they have to do,
and when, in essence also monitoring and keeping them on track, because if they're
falling behind because they have other priorities from their direct manager
then guess what, you're gonna have to ensure and remove some of the roadblocks
so that your project is not impacted or at least negotiate with their direct
manager to understand how it is you can get more of their time, so keeping them
on track, give them the tools they need in order to be successful, so they can
also even do some of this negotiation on their own. Project manager
responsibilities number three, managing executives and their expectations, I
couldn't tell you how much this is like, critical lifeline of a project, and what
people don't realize is, project management actually is a strategic role,
just like in an organization when they have strategies, they're ensuring that
all the executives are on board, and that everyone understands what they are, and
are bought into it, well guess what, it's the same thing for a project, I've seen
projects fail because they have not gotten this buy-in, so first and foremost
you have to manage the executives, they have to be brought through this process,
and you can do that through steering committees, but you also have to manage
their expectations, because that's a real big killer - you got to get them out on
the table, you got to understand where people are, and you got to make
sure that you can address them, so ensuring who's involved, ensuring that
they're all part of that process is really key, you got to manage up as much
as you have to manage down with your project team, project manager
responsibility number four, and that is managing project risk, okay every project
has risk, I don't care what type of project you have, they all have risk and
it's really important that you manage them, so project manager understands this,
and they're right away going to insuring from the start of the project they try
to get those first high level risks, and throughout the life cycle manage them,
there's a process to this, and you need buy-in, you may need some additional
resource and funding in order to address these risks, but guess what, as I said
before, project managing actually is very strategic, nine times out of ten I bet
you the project you're working on is a direct correlation to a strategy that
the organization is trying to implement, guess what, you do not want to be not
looking at risk, because if you fail then that strategy fails, so it is really
important that you manage risks, and really great project managers get this,
so manage that risk, do your risk contingency planning, and I promise you,
it makes a world of a difference. Project manager responsibility number five, and
that is managing budgets, so interestingly enough, every project
usually has a budget associated with it, I've ran multi-million dollar projects,
I've also ran projects that were just a few thousand, it doesn't matter the
amount of money, but you've got to manage the budget around it, because when you
manage the budget, it really dictates a lot of decisions that you're going to
make, you just can't willy-nilly spend, you may have to really look at resource
loading and timelines etc, and manage all that up to your executive team
accordingly, so again there's a strategic component around it, so managing a budget
is really important part of being a project manager, and if you have a
smaller project you're probably going to do it yourself, but if you have a large
project you're gonna have some financial people on your team,
you still need need to understand what's going on, because there's going to be a
give-and-take regarding scope, timeline, resourcing, and even your overall budget
that you now need to be aware of, now that you know some of the key
responsibilities of a project manager, it is time for you to understand what are
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