“Most of us are accidental project Managers. The biggest myth in the Project industry is that Project Management is something technical matter, a hard skill and with due experience of working in the same field, an experienced engineer can develop the skills of Project Management.”
Project Manager is a person responsible for managing the project. Project Manager is the person responsible to apply the Project Management techniques on the Project and make the Project successful. Project Manager is a person responsible for accomplishing the objectives of the Project. Project Manager is the one who strives to meet the competing requirements of a Project including the Triple Constraints of a Project – Scope, Schedule and Budget.
If we talk of personal Projects, who is the Project Manager or who is the person responsible for managing the project? Naturally we ourselves. In case of other not so big projects, we can identify someone who can take the responsibility of making the Project successful. Take an example that we have a marriage function in our family. We find one family member who becomes a leader and starts taking all the responsibilities. In social projects also, we identify someone who takes the charge of Project Manager and same way in non projectized organizations like an institution or a manufacturing unit someone is identified and given the responsibility of Project Manager.
But what about the organizations which are full of Projects and have to execute Project after Project and all the projects are quite big in size and also are complex in nature. In such organizations there should be a competent Project Manager for all the projects who can really get a detailed Project Plan made with the help of Project Team, acceptable to the sponsor and the key stakeholders. This plan includes the complete scope of the work, schedule of the work, budget and resources requirements.
According to the real meaning of a Project Manager in a projectized organization, once the plan has been prepared and all the constraints have been finalized, the Project Manager should be given hundred percent authority to utilize the organizational resources as agreed in the plan.
For example, if a Project Manager commits that according the Project Plan the project can be finished with complete scope of the project within the agreed upon timelines and within the agreed upon budget / profitability, then the Higher Management should not try to do the Micro Management, but give the project manager a free hand to make the Project decisions.
But in reality this does not happen for so many reasons. One of the major reasons is that we have scarcity of good project managers who have in depth knowledge of Project Management and have the desired skills and experience for preparing a project plan, which can create full confidence in the sponsor and meet the expectations of the key stakeholders of the project.
Accidental Project Manager: Most of us are accidental project Managers. The biggest myth in the Project industry is that Project Management is something technical matter, a hard skill and with due experience of working in the same field, an experienced engineer can develop the skills of Project Management. This is also known as the Accidental Project Manager. Accidental Project Manager means the Project has been left on the mercy of someone who has the working experience but has never in reality developed the required knowledge, skills, tools and techniques to be applied on Project activities to meet the Project requirements.
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