Result is the ultimate goal for business leaders to build a track record and make success stories. Every project must have a leader to manage and inspire his team to achieve project objective within certain budget and on time to ensure client satisfaction.
The successful project manager should take the responsibilities and provide a leadership in defining a clear objective, planning a road map with client, allocating and utilizing proper resources and monitoring the actual progress to keep it synchronized with the planned one.
Most of the projects are relying heavily on people. Therefore, the good project manager inspires and involves his team in the development of project plan. This involvment will motivate the team and increase their commitment toward accomplishing the work scope. A project manager's leadership qualities, skills and abilities are very important to handle the high level of projects complexity. The effective and honest communication can help to establish creditability and build trust within the team and with stakeholders.
This chapter helped me to learn in depth how the charismatic project manager should play a participative role to turn the project into an active learning and joyful environment. A good project leader creates opportunities for his team to develop and learn by urging them to take initiatives, risks and make decisions. The complexity of the projects generate many conflicts which need a proactive and smart manager to address those problems quickly and take a corrective actions without stressing out his team and creating a negative atmosphere. He has the ability to contain the unforeseen changes and transform the stress into a realistic positive energy to lead his team toward success.
I also learned that the project manager must manage the time wisely and guide the project team to prfioritize their work. To save time and empower the team members, a project manager must delegate the tasks elegantly by controlling the delegated task without being in the details. The project manager can not preventing scoop creep and managing changes unless he has the entire team involved to detect and defend the scope through establishing a change control system, process and procedures.
