How the Project Manager Leads
LO 4.3 Understand the key behaviors in which project leaders engage to support their projects.
The wide range of duties that a project manager is expected to take on covers everything from direct supervision to indirect influence, from managing “hard” technical details to controlling “soft” people issues, from developing detailed project plans and budgets to adjudicating team member quarrels and smoothing stakeholder concerns. In short, the project manager’s job encapsulates, in many ways, the role of a mini-CEO: someone who is expected to manage holistically, focusing on the complete project management process from start to finish. In this section, we will examine a variety of the duties and roles that project ...
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