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Project Management in Bangladesh - Term Paper

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Project Management - Overview

Common misconceptions about Project Management

Here are some questions we hear frequently that demonstrate a misunderstanding of project management:
What does the project manager do?
Why doesn't the project manager do some of the work?
Why don't we make our top specialist the project manager?
Why does the project manager need a support team?
Isn't this all an unnecessary overhead for the project?

Project management is a specialist discipline. In a well run project, there is a constant array of management issues to deal with, as well as a challenging routine of project management processes.

Responsibility of the Project Manager

The Project Manager is responsible for everything that is …show more content…

A documentation management process will ensure all information is available to all those who require it, and is subject to careful control over authorship, reviews and updates.
An effective team will be nurtured through appropriate initiation, training, communications, and social events.
Organisational change issues will be assessed early in the project, leading to a course of communications, events and other activities to ensure all parties affected by the change are ready and willing to change.
The needs to communicate outside the team with other parts of the organisation, customers, suppliers, and other parties will be assessed. A course of communications will be defined and actioned.
Large projects inevitable require a process to handle expenditure on subcontractors, equipment, software, and facilities. Project accounting will monitor and control expenditure - both as a routine management activity and as part of the overall focus on delivering optimum benefits.
Where sub-contractors are involved, there will be a management process to agree and monitor contracts.
At the end of the project, there will be several activities to transition work, processes and deliverables to line operation. The team also need to ensure filing and documentation is in good order, leaving behind sufficient detail for the operation of the system, audits concerning the project, and as a baseline for future

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