The Qualities, Methods And Impacts Of Effective Project Managers

Project management provides reasonable scientific solutions in order to overcome difficulties and achieve success. Each project has a variety of objectives have to achieve, these objectives are vary and can be for organization objectives or for social objectives. However, the project objectives could face some obstacles could be lead to limited success. The attempt to discover the factors of project success and project failure was not easy task for both scholars and expertise. These definitions can provide a close understanding and explanation for these terms. Many project management literatures have variety definitions of project success. (Adinyira, 2012) pointed out that Pinto and Slevin (1988) defined the success as delivering projects on proper time, cost and quality. Others like westerveld, elizabith have different ideas regarding the success that are related to the judge of stakeholders and organizational management. However, nowadays success become more complex issue to determine, it is not only meeting the costs and time it is belonging to the typology and sector of the project

Then comes meeting deadlines, in chapter it is declared as the problem faced by the project set up and also by the project manager. And it is also stated in the article by the author to solve this problem project manger should be organizational. He should also be good planner.

Effective project manager have the good competencies in human resource management. They normally demonstrate a good ability to gain cooperation, resolve the conflicts and influence others (Boyatzis, 1982; goodings, 1999, Potter, 2001). Normally in the team of a project, it consist of two subordinate; those who are already in the company and those who have abilities that help on the project that are working on and are temporary attached. It is very normal that these teams and different working style and will have conflicts. A good leader will make constant team building and discussion to resolve this. This is also another competencies related to the leader which are the team-building skills.

The report describes the tasks performed by me in accordance to the directives given by the course COSC 684 300: Professional Internship in Summer 2015 semester. The internship was scheduled from May 18, 2015 thru August 18, 2015. Mainly, three task areas were selected and agreed upon in the agreement between me and the company.

Leadership is one of the most elusive disparities in project management. All successful project managers are not always the most successful leaders. Many of us probably have experienced interacting with such project managers wondering how these managers were able to meet their project goals without having the ability to motivate people and develop a cohesive team. The answer is that these managers were lucky enough to have team members who were passionate about their jobs and delivered the results, which helped the project managers to be successful. The challenge is that project management skills can be obtained through courses, certifications, and degrees but there are not such tools available to become an effective leader.

Project management is not for everyone. To thrive in this field, one needs numerous technical and management skills, and a certain amount of experience in the relevant industry.

Being a project manager (PM) is complicated and requires a unique set of skills to be able to effectively deliver a project on time and within budget. According to Harrin (2015) some of the needed skills include negotiation, scheduling, cost control, communication, project recovery, coaching, and a sense of humor. The project manager must be able to juggle multiple and sometimes conflicting priorities in order to achieve project success. One tool that can assist the project manager in this objective is the use of Microsoft Project (MSP). With this tool, the project manager can view the status of the project in regards to deliverables, resources, and budget as it progresses its way to completion.

Project management (PM) is the vocation of seeing that projects are completed on time, within budget, and perform to the standard that the stakeholders are expecting. There are PM degrees available at the Associate, Bachelor, Graduate, and Ph.D. levels of study; degrees are available on campus and online from many well-known and highly rated institutes. However, many employers view the Project Management Professional (PMP) certificate as even more important than a degree. Project managers earn far about the average wage, the average salary for project managers worldwide was $81,000 in 2015, and there is a large demand for project managers, employers need an additional 15.7 million new project managers by 2020. A project manager must be able to work with many different people: project stakeholders, members of the project team, vendors, contractors, engineers. A project manager must have good communicate skills, have the courage to make hard decisions, and do whatever is necessary to see to it a project stays on track, on schedule, and on budget. Before becoming senior project managers and leading project teams, project managers hold a variety of project related positions; they receive on-the-job training, gain experience, and advance through the ranks as project team members, project coordinators, project schedulers; assistant project manages, project managers, before becoming senior project managers.

Project management is defined as “the application of processes, methods, knowledge, skills and experience to achieve the project objectives” (APM, 2016) , project management is a way of managing change and applying methods to achieve a set goal or objective, a PM’s role is set to coordinate and support as well as create an environment with set conditions in which a particular goal(s) are set in a controlled manner thus measuring possible change and applying processes to mitigating all areas of possible change to reduce possible errors and implement effect to the end result-whether you are directly involved in a project ‘methodology’ or you are supervising a group of individual (or a team) it is possible that project managers are familiar with what project management entails.

In order to achieve their business objective, project management and the used methodology are key factor which will be responsible for the success or failure of this project.

Project management across the organization helps create a strategic value that gives companies an edge on their competitors. Project management matters because it is a way to “map out” your plans to control spending and improve project results. It may be a way to reduce risks, cut costs and improve success rates. Being able to deliver projects on time and within budget often determines whether a company will get the next job or not. Projects have been around since beginning of time. Even a life cycle of a living being is a project. Let us break down project management in order to demonstrate the impact project management has within organizations.

Effective and efficient project management is crucial in every organization, despite the type of the business and the size of the organization. It is very important for a project manager to closely manage and monitor the project right from its inception to successful delivery of project with the help of team collaboration.

It takes skill are 4 points, respectively owner, user, environmental, and Team. That is, when a project manager dealing with the owner (Business Commissioner) can provide information such as financial conditions cost / budget Set a risks to be faced in the future. When talking with the user, May be invited to use the project results both lobbying and persuasion. Then, when speaking with the team should have technical expertise, can direct, and certainly should have managerial skills. Recently when talking with the environment in this case, government / environment may require approval / purchase agreement will be for the project.

Initially I had a view that project management is organized planned objective of an organization with the consideration of all other constraints like budget cost, man-power and utilizing resources. From the classes my knowledge on project management has enhanced. Here I comes to know the different kinds of management in an organization and the roles and responsibilities of project manager, line manager, functional manager and sponsor.

The essential skills that is needed for an effective project manager would be being able to