There is a vital role of a project manager in carrying out a project. A rise in the demand of needs of a business has made the part of a project manager more crucial, and complicated than it was in the past. An efficient project manger must possess some qualities that are given below.
Any business project contains some process groups. Those are initiation, planning, execution, monitoring, and controlling. The last step is appropriate distribution of resources, which is later on followed by planning the finishing of a project. The initiation of a project involves. Planning involves recognition of the procedure by which the project has to be carried out. In this process, it is the liability of the project manger to keep an eye on, and take care of every step of the project. Under the command of an efficient project manager, a particular project efficiently moves in the direction of a successful closure.
In addition to the above, a project manager must possess good HR skills for handling resources efficiently, and good communications skills to communicate with the team, and all stakeholders.
Furthermore, having good communication skills is also of crucial importance in executing, and achieving a target in a project. Hence, apart from all the above-mentioned qualities, a project manager must possess good communication skills as well, only then he/she will be able to deal with his/her team and the stakeholders effectively. In addition, they must possess superior HR skills. Having such capabilities is of crucial importance for an effective management of resources.
These days many organisations are utilising desktop software applications like Microsoft Excel, and Microsoft Project in order to mange their projects effectively. Undoubtedly, such soft wares are helpful, but they also possess certain limitations. Sometimes these softwares do not provide enough help to link various parties effectively with each other.
Using the desktop software project management may also cause a common problem in version controlling. Such as, if someone repeatedly updates a Microsoft Project management file, this may generate an extreme confusion about the most recent version of a particular file. This can very much happen that after ten minutes of discussion about a particular problem, the project manager, and the executive find themselves talking about two dissimilar versions of a project.
The needs and in some cases the projects themselves are extremely fast, and they modify everyday, or even within hours, or minutes. The information transferred with the help of desktop application is not instantaneous. In that situation, the information is emailed to other parties after becoming invalid. The web based project management system has the ability to resolve all such problems. It provides an instant access to the information related to a project through any browser server all over the world 24 hours a day. Such 100% web based systems makes every member and executives of a particular project to access the most current information about the project utilising a centralised database.
Hence, web-based project management software is the solution that combines all the information about a project, its resources, and their assignments at a centralised place. However, one must not forget that not every web-based system is equal.
* Display a cross project resource allocation report, or grid with all resources, projects and tasks in the system * Drill down from the report to view the projects and tasks that are causing the over allocation * Show all work, or effort a project team member, or resource is assigned to * Account for non-working time at the global level, such as weekends and company holidays * Account for resource non-working time, such as holiday time * Account for the schedules of part-time employees, or sub-contractors
Any business project contains some process groups. Those are initiation, planning, execution, monitoring, and controlling. The last step is appropriate distribution of resources, which is later on followed by planning the finishing of a project. The initiation of a project involves. Planning involves recognition of the procedure by which the project has to be carried out. In this process, it is the liability of the project manger to keep an eye on, and take care of every step of the project. Under the command of an efficient project manager, a particular project efficiently moves in the direction of a successful closure.
In addition to the above, a project manager must possess good HR skills for handling resources efficiently, and good communications skills to communicate with the team, and all stakeholders.
Furthermore, having good communication skills is also of crucial importance in executing, and achieving a target in a project. Hence, apart from all the above-mentioned qualities, a project manager must possess good communication skills as well, only then he/she will be able to deal with his/her team and the stakeholders effectively. In addition, they must possess superior HR skills. Having such capabilities is of crucial importance for an effective management of resources.
These days many organisations are utilising desktop software applications like Microsoft Excel, and Microsoft Project in order to mange their projects effectively. Undoubtedly, such soft wares are helpful, but they also possess certain limitations. Sometimes these softwares do not provide enough help to link various parties effectively with each other.
Using the desktop software project management may also cause a common problem in version controlling. Such as, if someone repeatedly updates a Microsoft Project management file, this may generate an extreme confusion about the most recent version of a particular file. This can very much happen that after ten minutes of discussion about a particular problem, the project manager, and the executive find themselves talking about two dissimilar versions of a project.
The needs and in some cases the projects themselves are extremely fast, and they modify everyday, or even within hours, or minutes. The information transferred with the help of desktop application is not instantaneous. In that situation, the information is emailed to other parties after becoming invalid. The web based project management system has the ability to resolve all such problems. It provides an instant access to the information related to a project through any browser server all over the world 24 hours a day. Such 100% web based systems makes every member and executives of a particular project to access the most current information about the project utilising a centralised database.
Hence, web-based project management software is the solution that combines all the information about a project, its resources, and their assignments at a centralised place. However, one must not forget that not every web-based system is equal.
* Display a cross project resource allocation report, or grid with all resources, projects and tasks in the system * Drill down from the report to view the projects and tasks that are causing the over allocation * Show all work, or effort a project team member, or resource is assigned to * Account for non-working time at the global level, such as weekends and company holidays * Account for resource non-working time, such as holiday time * Account for the schedules of part-time employees, or sub-contractors
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