Your Guide to Project Management Best Practices

Author: Eric Morkovich

project managers role

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A Project Manager’s Role – Key Responsibilities and Duties

Generally speaking, project manager roles and responsibilities embrace the culture of ongoing commitment to delivering exceptional products/services and specific results within the defined scope and top quality. The literature on project management offers us a great variety of books that give a project manager role description, outline how to follow that role, what daily duties a project manager needs to carry out, and so on. However, I tried to look though free PM articles and reviews on the Web and found out that it was hard enough for me to find a clear and complete definition of project manager obligation. I suppose this short yet useful article will help you understand project manager’s roles and responsibilities, and then you will easily put your knowledge in daily practice.

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8 Tips on How to Achieve Success in Project Management

The following below project success tips are designed to help achieve success in project management considering the balance between stakeholder interests and the constraints of limited resources and time. There are eight project success tips that you can follow to produce your project result which fits requirements and needs of your customers.

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Tips to Successful Project Methodology Implementation

Successful project methodology implementation can be achieved if you know how to select a proper methodology that fits the needs of your project and how to put the chosen methodology in practice. No matter whether you follow a traditional 5-phase process (Initiate-Design-Build-Deploy-Closure), the main idea is that you should be able to apply solutions that give rapid measurable success.

Project Initiation

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Managing Project Initiation Phase – A List of Critical Problems & Suggestions

The project initiation phase is critical to successful project development and implementation since this is the time when the project manager takes initial steps to create a solid foundation for success in all of the following project phases and activities. The fact is that there is a set of failures associated with project initiation, which are caused by typical problems and issues. In order to be successful in initiating projects, you need to know those problems, understand how to solve them, and be ready to follow project initiation best practices. Let’s learn the most critical problems you may have to solve when stepping into the first phase of your project.

Key Project Management Challenges

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Handling Key Project Management Challenges by Setting Right Priorities

Key project management challenges are those obstacles that prevent successful completion of the project, and one of the efficient ways to remove the obstacles is to apply right PM priorities to tasks and objectives of the project. Key PM challenges do not allow moving the project forward and delivering expected results. An ability of the project manager to solve key PM problems and issues by defining right PM priorities will let the project to be accomplished on time and as expected. In this article we tried to break the myth of unsolvable challenges and show you what basic steps can be take to apply right priorities.