criteria of excellent project manager?
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Leader.\nCommunicator.\nFacilitator.\nNegotiator.\nProblem solver.\nCreative.\nAble to balance multiple priorities.\nAble to see “the big picture”.\nDetail orientated.\nIntegrator.\nAble to make decisions.\nGood understanding of project environment.\nGood understanding of project management tools and techniques.\nFlexible.\nAble to delegate.\nAbility to influence.
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The suggestions above will work well with most managers, but there are some who have more specific ways of working that make day-to-day interaction challenging. Here are some typical "difficult boss"personalities and remedies for dealing with them.\n\nBoss type: The Micro-Manager (controlling, overly involved)\nRemedy: Your boss needs to develop more confidence in you. Begin by asking for complete responsibility on smaller tasks and then work your way up to bigger tasks. Be sure to deliver consistently excellent work or you may lose that trust quickly.\n\n\nBoss type: The Non-Manager (indecisive, hesitant, vague)\nRemedy: Instead of asking open-ended questions, give him a few choices and one clear recommendation. Counteract vagueness by asking for clarification. Avoid procrastination on your boss's part by communicating your deadlines and following up on what you need.\n\n\nBoss type: The Unreasonable Manager (crushes you with work)\nRemedy: Schedule a meeting to discuss priorities and options for what you can and cannot handle. Suggest bringing in a contractor to help during peak periods.
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Regardless of topic or size, one of the first steps to a successful project is breaking down the work to be done into manageable chunks.  Official terminology calls this decomposing the project.  It involves taking the scope, resources and time, putting them into a work breakdown structure (WBS) and creating a project plan.\n\nThere are tons of resources on the topic of project management on the web.  A few great starting points are the links below.  Of course, a search engine, can help you with specific problems.
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It's been a while since I took a PM course.  However, as I recall quality management is part of the PM life cycle.  I am in the quality profession and strongly believe that this is how a company achieves improvement.\n\nThere are many variations on the quality management idea (you may have heard of some of them such as Six Sigma, Kaisen, etc).  The basic idea is constant improvement:\n*  Assess the project after it is complete (in proj management you may call this a Project Post Mortem).\n*  Learn from your mistakes, i.e., change the process, implement preventative measures, etc.
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Depends on what the project is, but generally a project manager is in charge of the job (database roll out for example).  They make sure that the timelines and deliverables are met.  They schedule and chair meetings.  They plan and possibly do the budgets.
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Delegating tasks to individuals that can complete the tasks is the most important part.\n\nI have seen managers give projects to the wrong staff member, because they were more well liked...and the project failed.\n\nKnow your staff and what they are capable of.  Challenge them, but be there to catch the ball if they drop it.  Also, be the first in to work, and the last to leave, as frequently as possible, so you are viewed as a manager that pulls their weight.
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This question can have different answers depending on the kind of agency (traditional marketing? web-only shop? ad sales? startup?). \n\nIn general, a project manager is responsible for taking "ownership" of  a product or initiative and making sure it moves forward. Sometimes this means hiring the team to make it happen, but usually you're just herding a team already in place. You help set deadlines, navigate obstacles, track the budget and timeline, facilitate communication and write reports about the progress. You often have to give presentations or interact regularly with both upper management and middle/lower management and worker bees so it helps if you can talk intelligently about such wide-ranging topics as HR, technical specs and art/design.\n\nEssentially, you have to keep things moving in all areas, because if your project grinds to a halt or goes down in flames - it's your fault.\n\nOn the flip side, you get a little credit when it goes flawlessly.
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Hey,\n\nIf you're looking to see what people think about being in engineering, program, or project management, check out these people's first hand view of their jobs:\n\nEngineering:\n\nhttp://www.jobpodge.com/engineering-job-descriptions.html\n\nProgram Management:\n\nhttp://www.jobpodge.com/jobTestimonial.php?jobIndex=119&_program_manager\n\nhttp://www.jobpodge.com/jobTestimonial.php?jobIndex=43\n\nProject Management:\n\nhttp://www.jobpodge.com/jobTestimonial.php?jobIndex=118&_project_manager\n\nHope this helps!
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Take some project management theory training.  Depending on your situation you can check out local colleges, training organizations such as IIL or ESI, and online courses.\n\nOnce you have some concepts, you'll probably want to try and take on an assistant project manager role - whether formally or informally.  Or perhaps oversee a component of a larger project/program and then move into the project manager role when opportunities present themselves.\n\nAs you get more experience you might also want to look at getting a PM certification.
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Here's a list of open source PM software.  I can't comment on which is the best, but obviously it depends on exactly what you're trying to do.
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Ok Management is stroger, but you have to think also about the development. Management can be a boss but you have to know how to development and know all about the resources for doing a successful plan to a project :-)
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Depends how similar you need it to be.  There is a lot of free project management software out there, but most of it doesn't look like MSP, even though it may have some similar features.  I've linked to a list of open source PM software below.\n\nTurboProject is a MSP knock-off which comes in a number of flavors - and starts cheaply - but is not free.
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If the metrics are being produced by some-one on the project team other than the project manager - perhaps a "project controls" person, then I would accept the project manager to perform some level of audit to ensure the data he's getting is appropriate.\n\nThere could still be another level audit/review, probably by the project sponsir, if the project has a high enough risk associated with it.\n\nIf the project manager is producing their own metrics directly, then it would seem to make less sense that they would formally audit their own work, but of course they would be checking their own calculations.
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hi\nwe will perticular quality to the people when their performace is well and accordig to his interaction in the project
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A great manager must "walk his/her talk". He/She must be compassionate, yet able to "detach" from emotions when necessary-typically when having to deal with a negative situation. Must be a good listener. And not just LISTENING but actually HEARING what one is saying. A manager must be "teachable" himself, not thinking that as he/she is the manager, they know all. A positive attitude is a must. The ability to let go-delegate, not control. A great manager must be flexible, knowing he/she is dealing with people - not positions - and that each person requires a different type of management "style"
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1. Good communicator - keeps you aware of what is going on in the business, and is very clear when giving direction\n\n2. Non-threatening management style.  Managers who threaten are trying to do what's best for ~their~ career, not yours.  I'd want a manager with a collaborative style, who is committed to developing me and helping me get promoted.\n\n3. A leader who rewards good work with new challenges and opportunities.  If I do well at something, I want my manager to tell me I did well, and give me some say in what I do next - and help develop areas I want to develop.
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Learn about project managment. It helps with all of the other parts of IT i.e. Business analysis, process mapping etc. It will also help you move in to management if you so wish. Wish I had learned about it sooner. Good luck.