The person who leads the project work and is responsible for reaching the project objectives.
• The project manager familiarizes him/herself with the project’s background, business objectives and conditions, and informs all employees of them
• Works with the project team members to formulate the project objectives and exclusions
• Describes the project arena and agrees on it with the project sponsor
• Visualizes the project contents and results
• Plans the project
• Agrees with the resource owners on the use of human and other resources
• Keeps the tempo up through active daily management
• Motivates the employees and anchors the project in the organization
• Handles uncertainties in the project through measures like active risk management
• Keeps the project sponsor informed on the current status and possible deviations using status reports, etc.
• Maintains contact with the internal receiver and the customer
• Puts together project status and information necessary for gate decisions
• Answers to the project sponsor for the achievement of the project objectives
• Delivers the project’s results to the customer and turns over responsibility to the internal receiver
• Holds a lessons-learned seminar, writes the final report and passes along experiences.
