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What your Project Manager should be doing for you

December 27, 2007

Responsible for overall coordination, status reporting and stability of complex and cross-functional project oriented work efforts.

Manages multiple projects simultaneously, establish and implement project management processes and methodologies for the IT community to ensure project more years managing projects and requires prior management, supervisory, or team leader experience.

Plans and tracks resources, shapes priorities, coordinates interactions with the project customers and users

  • Builds & manages the project schedule, reports project status, manages project scope and specifications, raises overall critical trade-off decisions to keep the project team focused on the right goal.
    • Projects are all about Deliverables, Cost, Management of Resources and Communications.
  • Defines and manages project dependencies, interacts with the program management team and other project teams for external team dependencies
    • A Project office provides guidance and help to manage expectations with financial and stakeholders.
      • Setup Budget and charge codes
      • Manage Financials
      • Report overall Status
      • Coordinate projects and dependencies
      • Manages escalations
      • Established some levels of priorities
  • Follows a set of practices to ensure the integrity and quality of project deliverables and follows the standard development methodology.
    • Most organizations have a Technology such as Clarity, Enterprise Microsoft Project or RPM, for managing process project schedules.
      • Start with a corporate standard project wbs
      • Build work-streams based on major and key milestones and deliverables.
  • Responsible for plans to transition the project deliverables to the user community, as appropriate, to be defined project by project
    • Daily project tracking rolled into a weekly or bi-weekly project reports
    •  Scheduled meetings with resources (tower leads, SME’s and subk project members)
  • Responsible for budget, schedule and quality for assigned work
    • Negotiates priorities
    • Communicates status
    • Tracking wbs tasks, subtasks, milestones
    • Schedules meetings, assign tasks and tracks progress
    • Performs escalations when needed
  • Facilitates resource assignments and ensures resource optimization
    • Adjusts resources for maximum results
  • In conjunction with Program Manager, facilitates kick-off meetings with Business Program Manager or delegate
    • Review related contracts, SOWs / OLAs
    • Review Scope, Requirements, Dependencies, Risk
  • Develops integrated schedule for all impacted parties; manages Clarity plan and metrics
    • Start with a corporate standard project wbs
    • Build work-streams based on major and key milestones and deliverables.
  • Tracks and manages project risks and issues, removes roadblocks; develops risk management plan for project
    • Document dependencies in wbs
    • Document track risk owners
    • Report status to PO and stakeholders
  • Escalation point for issues
    • Understand issue
    • Document issues
    • Suggest remediation options
    • Document risk of no-action / impact
  • Manages contingency plans
    • Understand issue
    • Document issues
    • Suggest remediation options
    • Document risk of no-action / impact
  • Manages Change Control requests
    • Understand Change Control requirements
    • Document  change needed
    • Document backout plan
    • Document successful and failed change (RCA)
  • Assists in implementing corrective action
    • Debug conference calls
    • Document attendance
    • Document roles
    • Document assigned tasks
    • Track / report progress
    • Update appropriate departments based on events
  • Reviews and validates status reports
    • Accurately track and report status to PO and Stakeholders
  • Prepares status reports
    • User corporate tracking report venues
    • Accurately track and report status to PO and Stakeholders
  • Implementation planning and execution
    • Execute
  • Approves Go / No-go decisions
    • Test / validation
    • KT
    • Turn-over checklist
    • Acceptance / signoff
  • Coordinates with each Process Owner regarding issues and standards related to that Functional area as well as with the Program Manager
    • Execute
  • Facilitates lessons learned meetings
    • Closeout / exit criteria
  • Provides performance review input for Application Managers, Downstream System Managers and Project Team Members
      • Best to use gap analysis
      • KT
      • Turn over checklists

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