Roles of Project Manager

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Question 1 A project manager, like an experienced physician should be an expert at diagnosing problems or infections within their patients (projects). Explain this analogy by detailing the five (5) roles and or responsibilities of the project manager. Provide suitable descriptive examples to support the roles or responsibilities identified. (25 Marks Roles of a project manger Planning and Organizing The project managers duties is to gather information on exactly what needs to be done, how it is to be organized, how much it will cost to complete the project and how long it will take. After which they will examine the independences of the various tasks, skills and other resources (Keller, 1998). Doing this will result in the project plan and coming up with a with an appropriate budget for the project as having a good plan and a realistic budget will result in the budget going well according to needs of the client. If the either the plan or the budget is poorly done then this will prove to be harmful to the client as the project can and will over run its spending limits (budget) and also go over the specified period that it was intended to last and therefore the client will lose both time and money. Assembling the Team The project team can make or break the entire project, often times the project manager has little to say about who works on the project. The team will be assembled from people with the right skills to who are not assigned to work of higher authority than the project. Even if the project manager has free choice the pool of people from whom he selects is unlimited. The project managers skills lies in assembling people and making them into a team, motivating them, managing conflicts that might arise amongst them and ensuring good communication within the team (Keller, 1998). As it can be sometime challenging to mix individuals
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