The job (role) of a project manager is extremely challenging and thereby exciting. Depending on the organizational structure of your organization, you may be reporting to a functional manager, a program manager, a portfolio manager, or to some other manager or executive. Nevertheless, it is your responsibility to work with your team and other relevant individuals and groups, such as program managers and portfolio managers, to bring all the pieces together and make the project happen i.e., to achieve the project objectives.
To do this, you need a range of skills and capabilities. They are:
1. Communication
2. Negotiation
3. Problem Solving
4. Influencing
5. Leadership
The job of the Project Manager is to (among many, of course): - Manage the project - Manage stakeholders - Monitor the project's budget and schedule - Develop the project plan - Manage project conflicts
"Project manager" should be capitalized when it is used as a job title or precedes a name, for example, "Project Manager Smith." It should not be capitalized when used generically, such as "the project manager."
The Project Manager is responsible for delivering the Project. S/he is the person leading and managing the Project team.
A project manager can be called a number of different things. Team leader, project leader, manager, producer, and many others are some alternative titles.
There's no resemblance whatsoever between the general contractor and the Project Manager in job functions.
A project manager handles more of the day to day operations of a job than a project director. The director is in charge of the big picture in getting a project finished.
A Program Manager is usually the next job up in the food chain level after the Senior Project Manager. Here's the career path (Note that there is no standard career path, but the order below is exact): # Assistant Project Manager (Project Assistant) # Project Coordinator # Junior Project Manager # Project Manager # Senior Project Manager # Program Manager # Senior Program Manager As explained above, becoming a Program Manager is more of a promotion/experience than education. Thus there is no education that will make you directly a Program Manager.
Hell yeah. Project manager delivers the project within schedule. That is ultra important job. And they are an endanger species cause very VERY few people is really good at it.
There are many different companies that use project managers and need people to do that job. One of the big employers are construction companies.
One would find a job description for a project manager by visiting an employment center or from sites like Craigslist or Kijiji. One will find other information regarding the job like wages and benefits as well.
The difference is the assistant project manager has to confer with the project manager on major decisions.
He's a project manager, same as Adam but a higher level