Assignment The Role of Project Manager Submitted to Muhammad Saad Khan Faculty of Management Sciences Project Management for Engineers MSEM Spring 2016, FMS-19177 Presented by: Arsalan Allahyar CMS No: 17772 A Role of a Project Manager A term Manager can be simply define as an individual in charge of arranging and coordinating the work of a gathering of people, observing their work, and making restorative move when vital. Therefore, a role of project manager is as similar but more focused on a specific task. A project manager is the individual in charge of driving a venture from its origin to execution. This incorporates arranging, execution and dealing with the people, assets and extent of the task. Project manager must have the order to make clear and feasible goals and to see them through to fruitful culmination. The project manager has full obligation and power to finish the appointed venture. A project manager's position may end with the completion of the assigned project, or it may be a semi permanent position for a limited time or until a predetermined point in the project’s schedule or stage of completion. The project manager must have a set of skills including a capacity to ask penetrating questions, identify implicit suppositions and resolution clashes, and in addition more broad administration abilities. Key among a project manager's obligations is to identify the hazard and threats that specifically affects the probability of accomplishment of the project and this risk must be both formally and casually measured all through the lifetime of a project. Uncertainties are always there in the project which brings along the risk, and a successful project manager is the person who concentrates on this as their essential concern. The vast majority of the issues that effect a project result in somehow from risk. A decent project manager can diminish hazard altogether, regularly by holding fast to a strategy of open correspondence, guaranteeing each noteworthy member has a chance to express suppositions and concerns. A project manager is a man who is in charge of deciding, both substantial and little. The project manager should ensure that they control hazard and minimize instability. Each choice the project manager makes should straightforwardly advantage their project. The role of the project manager encompasses many activities including Planning and Defining Scope, Activity Planning and Sequencing, Resource Planning, Developing Schedules, Time Estimating, Cost Estimating, Developing a Budget, Documentation, Creating Charts and Schedules, Risk Analysis, Managing Risks and Issues, Monitoring and Reporting Progress, Team Leadership, Strategic Influencing, Business Partnering, Working with Vendors, Scalability, Interoperability and Portability Analysis, Controlling Quality, Benefits Realization and many other skills may be required for this job. A good Project Manager must have a combination of key soft skills. Although Project management training is excellent, without suitable characteristics such as the ability to ask penetrating questions, uncover any unstated assumptions, good conflict resolution and general management skills completing projects successfully will be a huge challenge. A few key soft skills that we are discussing here:1. Communication 2. Leadership 3. Team Management 4. Negotiation 5. Personal Organization 6. Risk Management 1. Communication A study suggests that 90 percent of a project manager's time is spent on communication and conveying messages? It is crucial that project managers can successfully pass on vision, thoughts, objectives, and issues—and in addition produce reports and presentations, among different aptitudes. Communication is a wide point, so It is hard to approach it from a comprehensive edge. A decent place to begin is by enhancing your presentation abilities, which interprets into everything from a kickoff meeting to a pitch to customers and partners. 2. Leadership Leadership is the present popular expression in the project administration industry, and with good reason: if you can lead you can deliver. But most importantly, leadership is regularly what is lost in the project manager's weapons store of very created specialized aptitudes. In case you are a project manager, I can promise you have felt the need to enhance yourself as a pioneer sooner or later. “Thousands of resources exist that promote better leadership.” Susanne Madsen, a project administration and leadership mentor. 3. Team Management Other than driving a group of diverse people from a vital viewpoint, project managers additionally need to oversee from an operational perspective. A powerful team manager exceeds expectations at promoting so as to direct and organizing gatherings of people cooperation, assigning errands, determining clash, setting objectives, and assessing execution. Initiative is about rousing others to stroll with you; team leaders ensures your group has a right tool for the job. 4. Negotiation Talking about communication skills once more—a considerable amount of communication needs to do with negotiating the utilization of assets, budgets, planing and scheduling, project specific requirements, and an assortment of different bargains that are unavoidable. Knowing how to arrange well so all gatherings are fulfilled is a key expertise for the fruitful project manager. 5. Personal Organization Have you ever heard that you cannot give what you do not have? By what method would you be able to complete things and sort out work for other individuals if your very own life and projects are complicated and going no place? Get sorted out by and by, and you will promptly enhance as a project manager. 6. Risk Management If you can predict and create solutions to issues before they arise, chance that you can anticipate and make answers for issues before they emerge, you expand your odds of conveying projects effectively. Risks by definition are not urgent; subsequently, numerous project managers neglect to consider risks as genuinely as they should. Last but not least, Project Management is a work that requests a differed and inconceivable aptitude set. Begin by sharpening your practices in every aptitude set, and continue including and consolidating them into your work.