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The Skills of a Project Manager
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The Skills of a Project Manager. Project managers need more skills to deal with the managerial and interpersonal demands of today's projects. In order to perform the functions of management and to assume multiple roles, project managers must be skilled in both the science and the art of project management. There are five managerial skills that are essential to successful management: technical, problem solving, negotiating and conceptual skills.
The Roles of a Project Manager
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The Roles of a Project Manager. The different roles a project manager must have to be successful in leading a team to deliver high quality results. The project manager is the ultimate person accountable for the project she is the one whose job it is to make sure the project gets done, and is the principal contact person for the donor, beneficiaries and the key stakeholders. As responsible for the project she needs to make key decisions regarding the management of the resources available to the project.
The Responsibilities of a Project Manager
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The Responsabilities of the Project Manager. Managing projects requires more than technical skills, this article discusses the key responsabilities a project manager must assume to effectively manage a project. The project manager is the ultimate person accountable for the project she is the one whose job it is to make sure the project gets done, and would be the principal contact person for the donor, beneficiaries and the key stakeholders
The Project Scope
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The Project Scope. Scope is the description of the boundaries of the project. It defines what the project will deliver and what it will not deliver. Scope is the view all stakeholders have from the project; it is a definition of the limits of the project. The purpose of scope management is to establish a process that will allow the incorporation of changes by ensuring the changes contribute to the ultimate goal of the project, changes are agreed by stakeholder and approved by management and the donor.
The Project Schedule
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The Project Schedule. The project schedule is the organization of all project activities by time and by their logical dependencies and each with a start date and a finish date.The goal of defining the schedule is for the project team to have a complete understanding of all the work that needs they must accomplish, by defining the schedule the project also develops an understanding of the constraints, dependencies and sequence of the activities. 






