The Project Manager’s Personal Objectives
The project manager's personal objectives should therefore be to:
- Attain the willing commitment of people to assigned tasks
- Achieve the co-ordination and collaboration of different work
groups, responsibility centers, and entire organizations, including
that of the owner
- Achieve visibility by placing a high premium on reliability
and timeliness of information, and a high cost on unnecessary
or irrelevant information
- Steer the project to completion in an orderly and progressive
manner
- Ensure that trade-offs between scope, cost and time are satisfactory
and acceptable, and are seen to be so
- Perpetuate development of personal and professional skills and
the potentialities of project participants.
For purposes of comparison, traditional management philosophy and
its typical structure is shown in Figure 1.
Figure 1. Typical Functional Organization showing
Line Authority/Responsibility
Figure 1 can be summarized as follows:
- Established on-going the organizationŐs function mainly on a
vertical basis
- A chain of authority exists within the organization from
the highest rank to the lowest, through every link in the chain
- Hence, an employee receives orders from one superior only
- Strong superior-subordinate relationships exist to preserve
unity of command and to ensure unity of purpose
- Work progresses within autonomous functional units of an organization
- The line and staff relationships are clearly defined
- Functional managers have clearly identified finite responsibilities
- Functional managers establish "staff" relationships where collective
action is required
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Comparision
with Traditional Philosophy
