This
assignment 3, defines what project manager is? Then basically, we did interview
a system analyst so that our information here is the basis of our answers in
this assessment. In general terms, he said that he must work with his
responsibilities of executing, planning, and closing in any project, computer
networking, and software or telecommunications development. By that definition
according to the project manager, he is working in related branch in computer
networking and software development because he is working in the information
system development. Moreover, a project manager is also the responsible for
accomplishing the stated project objectives. The key project management
responsibilities include creating clear and attainable project objectives, building
the project requirements, and managing the triple constraint for projects,
which are cost, time, and quality which is also known as scope. In addition to
that, a project manager is often a client representative and has to determine
and implement the exact needs of the client, based on knowledge of the firm
they are representing. The ability to adapt the procedures of the contracting
party, and to form close links with the nominated representatives, is essential
in ensuring that the key issues of cost, time, quality and above all, client
satisfaction, can be realized. According to him, being a project manager is
very hard and difficult for adapting that kind of issues and situations.
Handling all those kinds of problems could be considered of being a good and
effective project manager. For him, he could meet all those qualifications
because he has the complex experience of being a project manager for a couple
of years. Based on him, the term and title project manager has come to be used
generically to describe anyone given responsibility to complete a project.
However, it is more properly used to describe a person with full responsibility
and the same level of authority required completing a project. He said that if
a person does not have high levels of both responsibility and authority then
they is better described as a project administrator, coordinator, facilitator
or expeditor. Being a project manager is very essential in the IT business
industry because they lead and handle the big project that was assigned to him.
Project manager has many responsibilities to do their effectively and
efficiently. However, there are many hindrance and obstacles when doing their
jobs. For more information he had answered during the interview is that there
are specific responsibilities of being a project manager like him. He said it
varies depending on the industry, the company size, the company maturity, and
the company culture. Yet, there are some responsibilities that are common to
all project managers. First, he emphasized the responsibility of developing the
project plan, managing the project stakeholder, managing the project team,
managing the project risk, managing the project schedule, managing the project
budget, and last but not the least managing the project conflicts.
Ms.
Sharon Lei Lomantas is also a project manager in their team in City Information
and Technology Center and a System Analyst. A project manager, according to Ms.
Lomantas, is the one who organizes the task of every team member in the given
project and the leader of the information system project of the company. Ms. Lomantas
said that a project manager must have many experiences in handling a team in a
project because of the complexity of t hat profession and for the reason that
it is crucial in the hands, skills and characteristics of the project manager
the successfulness of the project. As a project manager, he or she must have a
high leadership skills for him or her to effectively guide and implement the
necessary steps that a team must do in order to achieve the correct requirement
that the client want to. And to be an effective leader, a project manager must
had an experience before as a member in a team in a large project of a company
because in that way, a project manager can fully understand the hardships, the
necessary responsibilities of every team member, and every individual members
of the team their skills and capabilities as how they must work their jobs in
the project. As Ms. Sharon Lei Lomantas said, a project manager does not
necessarily need to involve in programming task because it is a burden for a
project manager to do that kind of task for the reason that he is the only
leader in the team and he supervise all the task of every member in the team.
The project manager only dictates to the every individual in the team their
respective tasks but the project manager must know first the individual capabilities
of the team members for him to correctly assign the important tasks in the
project, and each member has individual task based on their capabilities
because the project might fail if the project manager did not correctly assign
the important tasks to the one who cannot fulfill the assign duty. The project
manager also dictates to the team members on how to do all those tasks that
they were assigned for them to really understand their main purpose in the
project, and the project manager is the leader in the team and must lead the
flow of the project. We had also interviewed Mr. Mark Fernandez who is working
in Digital Interface, Inc., and he said that a project manager does not
necessarily have a high IQ but the important is that he must be a critical
thinker. A critical thinker in all aspect of the project, whether in financial,
in resources, in management, and other related issues that may affect the
development of the project. To be a project manager does not need to have a
high IQ for the reason that managing a team in a project can be learned through
experience and having an experienced to be a member in a team in the project
especially if you are a system developer or a system analyst in the team,
because those positions are very crucial in the success of the project. And if
the project manager does not correctly assess and guide a system developer and
system analyst there proper tasks that they must accomplish, there is a high
possibility that a project may fail or maybe the deadline of the project is
delay because of the slow development process of the project. A project
manager, according Mr. Mark Fernandez, knows how to assess a problem that
affecting the flow of the project, example in the delayed gathering of data of
the system analyst. Because of the work of the system analyst is the foundation
of the information system project. Mr. Mark Fernandez must always follow-up the
deadline of the project for the client.
Interviewed
person:
Ms. Sharon Lei
Lomantas
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