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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.

Using Project Implementation Plan to Produce Deliverables

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Using Project Implementation Plan to Produce Deliverables

As an effective project manager, you always strive at organizing scarce project resources, working under tight deadlines, applying reactive decision making, controlling project change, and generating maximum team performance. All the actions are about implementation of your project. Although the business case for your project has been perfectly developed and you have reached an agreement with the project stakeholders, implementing the project may turn into a complicated task that you are hardy to complete.

managing project risks

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Managing project risks – Learning project risk definition and undertaking risk management process

If you start reading project management literature, you may find there various definitions of project risk. The variety of project risk definitions is caused by the fact that each kind of project (e.g. IT projects and construction projects) may have specific kinds of risks that influence project results. However, the nature of project risks is the same for every kind of project, so there should be common definition of risks. In this article the following project risk definition is used: A project risk refers to a combination of probabilities that cause an event’s appearance and the outcomes that the event produces. Project risks can be identified, estimated, assessed and controlled within project risk management activities.

project sponsor: definition, types, role, respomsibilities

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Project Sponsor – The Role and Responsibilities

Successful initiation of a new project is always based on project sponsorship. If the project is well funded by project sponsors, it has the required financial foundation to carry out works, achieve objectives and produce deliverables.
Project sponsor is a person(s) or an organization(s) that is in charge of driving the project towards directions that will bring the project to successful realization of expected benefits. Project sponsor finances project initiatives and works, takes care of engagement processes, facilitates development of the initial scope and the project charter, and participates in processes of project communications management.