The Importance Of Successful Project Management

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When you are selected to be in charge of any situation the responsibility of accomplishment or disappointment falls onto you. Once you are placed in a management role of a project you must be able to lead individuals effectively and efficiently in order to reach the expected conclusion of projects placed upon you. The success of a project manager can be broken down into specific roles and responsibility. A successful project manager must understand the concept of the project as well as be a leader, a coordinator, a motivator, and a communicator to the client and his or her fellow team members. Project managers also take on the responsibility of trying to avoiding common mistakes made by project managers that could potential lead to the failure
Because the people you’re working with and want to learn from are no longer right down the hall- or even on the same continent –project managers have to become great communicators (Brandel, 2006). With technology advancing has made communicating on a project a more global effort. This new technology allows for collaboration on projects from team members from a more global standpoint. This new technology allows the project manager the ability to communicate on a project with multiple companies that are in different locations. Ultimately having good communication between the project manager and fellow team members is the only way to ensure that a project can be completed successfully and within a timely
The project manager does not have to know everything, he or she must "know what they don 't know." Even an inexperienced project manager will likely succeed if he or she has a support network of project management and subject matter experts that they can call upon. Project management is a team effort if you do not have a proper team behind you any and every project that you touch will more than likely fail. Another consideration for assigning a project manager is compatibility. When you get right down to it, projects are accomplished by people who must work together as a team. That doesn 't mean that they all have to be best friends, but if there are compatibility, personality, communications or similar issues between the project manager and the internal or external project-team members, this puts the project at risk (Jeffrey,

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