... empowered, they work alone which without the control of manager, they can show their creativeness, apply their ways to launch the product into the market. It means they can make success for project ... Describing the roles of project manager in the selection process The successful project managers are people who know their roles clearly and complete them effectively. The function of project manager ... sick, others can help he or she to complete the task. Moreover, others members can bring out their initiatives to help project manager, as me have right decisions for project. Therefore, the team...
... control.One of theproject managers seized the initiative. Lacking both authority and the answers, she nevertheless looked around for help. She contacted theproject of-fice the corporate Project Management ... others to do the same.• Get explicit commitments from people to support the goals of the program—then they are more likely to follow through.• Take action, first to articulate the needs, then ... suffering becauseof the problems and asked them to get together for a discussion. She put togethera presentation that clearly stated the nature of the problems and their impact on the businesses....
... and yet others at aunit level. Regardless of who does the work, the PMO assumes responsibilities forsuccess on projects and manages theproject managers.Chief Project Officer. The chief project ... formal groups. The titles tacked onto theproject office concept illus-trate the variety of approaches. The TitlesA project office is not always called a project office the names span from the straightforward ... with other similar of-fices—for instance, the soft-treading support PSO on one hand, and on the other, the PO power-packed with authority. Project Offices: From Low-Key to OmnipotentSince the project...
... though the PSO is inwardly targeted, and the PMCOE is aimed at scanning the outside en-88 Creating theProject OfficeFIGURE 4.2. CHIEF PROJECT OFFICER.CPOStrategic project planning Project reviewsPriorities ... alike—even if they are part of the same cate-gory. The functions described separately may fuse together into different forms. Forinstance, the staff functions of the PSO and the PMCOE might ... ex-isting vocabulary. The success of the final design is measured by the degree to which the POshines a powerful spotlight on project management in the organization and en-sures that projects perform...
... memberswho have worked together for some time, particularly if close bonds haveCompleting the project 169In some projects there are handovers before the conclusion of the project. These are often between ... work.Completing the project 165developed. Theschedule will have indicated when team members completetheir tasks, so in many projects staff move to other work before theproject iscompleted. ... moved into other work, many of the project team will plan their own futures in relation to the anticipated completion of the project. For some there will be a sense of loss, but others may be...
... perspective.Budget Schedule Quality The project sponsor ❏❏ ❏ The functional expert ❏❏ ❏ The line manager ❏❏ ❏ The supplier or contractor ❏❏ ❏ The user of project out-comes❏❏ ❏ The project team ❏❏ ❏ The project ... be the one who confirms that theproject has been successfullycompleted.࿖ The project team – these are the people who will carry out all of the tasksand activities to complete the project. These ... with theproject andwith the impact of theproject requirements on any other work inprogress. Thus the functional expert will be concerned to balance the quality of outcomes with the schedule...
... measures.EVALUATION AT THE END OF A PROJECT There are many different types of evaluation that may take place at the endof a project. The most usual evaluation is to determine the extent to which the project ... – the cheapest is not necessarily the best, nor is the onethat seems to promise an impossibly fast completion.There may also be an evaluation to determine whether theproject is goingin the ... serviceprovider partway through a project. The nature of the audience may alsodetermine the way in which the results of the evaluation are reported andused.One of the key decisions in the planning stage...
... timescales;࿖ the extent of the authority they have to make decisions about their areaof work;࿖ the person who will act as their line manager for the duration of the project; ࿖ the arrangements ... might alter the directionor balance of the project. Implementing the project 113࿖a list of the deliverables;࿖agreement about how theproject will be managed, reported andreviewed;࿖ the estimates ... on time, within the budget and achieving all of the objectivesintended.There will certainly be change during the implementation stage of the project. There will be all of theproject activities...
... for the duration of the project but lengthening the timescale of theproject to enable it to be completed by apart-time project team. Another solution might be to employ staff purely for the ... often about the ways in which projectsfit into the normal structures and procedures, and the extent to which thesehelp or hinder the use of project working to achieve focused outcomes. Thereis ... from the project 205pairing up and also with the whole team working with the learningwhole team.When projects have been successful because of the ways in which the teamworked, or when a project...
... of these reports are the responsibility of theproject man-ager. Others in the team may produce reports about the current status of the project or about progress in tasks and activities, but the ... conclusion about the extent to which the objectives of the project had been achieved. It might also return to the purpose of the project, and comment on the extent to which the overall purpose ... people write the key points and a bit about them on small filingcards and hold them in their hands during the presentation. There is adanger of dropping them but you can punch holes in the corners...
... to progress rather thanthinking of the actual development as being the purpose of the project. Then, even when theproject is finished, the development process willcarry on. Theproject closure ... each affects the other. The first stage of theproject is vitally important as it is the foundation forall the future work. Theproject needs to be defined clearly so that all of the people involved ... number of projects andfound that there were a number of common faults. On most of the projectsthey reviewed:࿖ the team was not sure of theproject objectives;࿖ the team was not sure what the deliverables...
... own way. The charge-to-overhead approachwould constitute a service tax assessed to all projects, whether theproject man-agers wanted the service or not. Under the second premise, the PMO would ... for the servicefrom their research budgets. The value-added philosophy assumed that once the value of the support was demonstrated, every project manager would want to takeadvantage of theproject ... optionsrelated to the context, the organization and people, the support functions, and the project execution responsibility. Once the right concept is hatched, then involvestakeholders in the movement...
... dev-astating. They needed to have their own act together first before marketing them-selves and theproject office concept to others.If the answer to the first question was yes and the second question ... othersit pointed up the lack of them.These efforts helped various organizations within 3M identify their strengthsand weaknesses, their position in their marketplaces, and suggested how the ... in the organization that people rec-ognize the need for such help?YIf the answer was no to the first question, they were not ready to approach the organization with the idea. Opening a project...
... this. In the case where theproject office is in the line organizationand does not have project leaders within the office, but distributed out in theirfunctional areas, theproject leaders themselves ... in the distribution of the framework for implementation of a new project office, the Project Office Implementation Kit. The 3M case illustrates the one-step-at-a-time approach to implementing the project ... challenges and at the same time demonstrating the benefit of project management. Further steps, in an articulated political approach, weretaken to strengthen theproject management cause. These included...