Roles and Responsibilities of Project Manager

Here are the following Roles and Responsibilities of Project Manager:

1. Project Proposal Writing: Once a project is assigned to work upon, a project manager needs to develop a comprehensive project plan defining project objective, scope and timelines and resources required.
2. Project Cost Estimation: Project Manager needs to negotiate the project cost with the customer keeping the efforts and resource required in the project and also maintaining the quality at the same time.
3. Scheduling: Efficiently allocating the time and resources to meet project deadlines also becomes a responsibility of a project manager, keeping a balance between competing priorities to ensure the optimal use of available resources.
4. Project Staffing: Project manager needs to allocate task and responsibilities to different team members based on their strengths and expertise, ensuring communication between and collaboration among the independent teams.
5. Monitoring Cost and Progress: Project Manager must monitor the project progress, thus conducting regular meetings and effective communication within the team becomes important to ensure that the project is on track, meeting the deadline and is also not running out of cost.
6. Risk Management: Project Manager should continuously assess the project to identify the potential risk that could impact project success and establish mitigation strategies and must also anticipate and manage changes in project scope or requirements in a proactive manner.
7. Team Management: Project manager needs to address issue with in the team, motivate and inspire the team, maintaining a collaborative and productive work environment, must provide guidance and support to the new member, helping them over the challenges ensuring minimal impact on project timeline.
8. Stakeholders Management : Engaging with stakeholders to understand their requirement and expectations, keeping them updated of the project progress, communicating changes and issues effectively.
9. Report Writing and Presentation: It is the responsibility of the project manager to prepare a comprehensive project report mentioning the final deliverable, resources, time and cost needed to develop the project. Preparing presentation for meetings with the customers and team to effectively communicate its ideas and thoughts in front of them.

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In a competing world of business and technology, the growth and prosperity of any organization highly depend on successful project execution. In successful project execution, project management is crucial and the project manager is the sole of project management, responsibly handling and coordinating all intermediatory steps in the development of the project. In this article, we will discuss various roles and responsibilities of the project manager in detail.