Everything you’ll be responsible for on your project!
Are you a new project manager or thinking about becoming a project manager? There are some critical project manager responsibilities that you need to be aware of to ensure a successful project.
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Project Planning
This is a bit of a no-brainer. If you are managing a project, then planning is a huge part of that process!
When you do project planning, in the initial stages of your project, you need to outline all the baseline items you need to ensure success. That baseline will give you a starting point for creating the rest of your project plan and ultimately, executing your project.
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Risk and Change Management
This is something that can often get lost in the shuffle of executing tasks on the project. But risk and change management are absolutely critical responsibilities for a project manager.
Risk is guaranteed to happen, and you can’t be successful if you’re scrambling. This is where risk identification and mitigation plans come into play. If you don’t have those plans in place, your project will derail quickly.
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Firefighting
In a perfect world, everything on your project would go according to plan… but that’s not the reality!
As you progress in your project, you’ll start to gain more information and items that feed into your project.
If you have a solid project plan, you won’t deviate too much from your plan and the firefighting will be minimal and manageable. But the reality is that it happens either way, so you need to be prepared to address issues as they arise.
More Project Manager Responsibilities
The three responsibilities given here are pretty big ones, but there are still a number of other responsibilities that every project manager should be aware of.
If you’re a new project manager, or even a seasoned project manager looking for a refresher, head over to YouTube with me so that we can keep discussing this topic through the video I made about it.
Meanwhile, if you really are committed to mastering your next project, do consider taking my SLAY Project Management online course where I show you step-by-step how to successfully manage a project and walk you through the responsibilities you’ll have as a project manger, in-depth. Plus you get access to every template you will need, along with detailed video instructions on how to fill them out.
-Adriana
