A Day in the Life of Project Manager

A Day in the Life of a Project Manager 1. How effectively do you think Rachel fatigued her day? Project is a complex, non-routine, one time effort that is limited by time, bud live on, resources and performance specifications and its implemented to extend to the customer requirements. The following activities performed by Rachel be take in related a. Review show reports and prepare for the weekly status meeting 25 hour b. act in the progress review meeting 45 arcminute c. Reviewing project assignments 30 min d. Listening to team mates 20 min e.Discussing the bother with John 30 min f. Exploring and getting the necessary equipments for the project 30 min g. Exchanging information about technical requirements 60 min h. Discussion with bloody shame (marketing animal trainer), where she agreed to talk to her team members 40 min i. Reviewing the impact the clients requests could have on project schedule 30 min j. Reviewing emails and project documents 30 min A few th ings are ordinary daily work that requires doing the same work repetitively. Time spent on these routine activities a. Reviewing her schedule 15 min . Discussing the project with her boss 20 min c. Updating boss on the key events of the day 20 min Time spent on non-project activities a. Socializing and catching up on personal news 10 min b. Getting to her office and settling in 10 min c. Project status meeting delayed 15 min d. Gossiping with Edie 30 min e. Everyone getting on conference call and checking emails 15 min f. Waiting in Marys office 10 min g. Going home 30 min Her efficiency would be calculated as- Total spend time Efficiency = Direct project related work * 100 = 340/515 * 100 = 66. 02%She has an efficiency of 66. 02% on the project. She is an efficient project theater director to some extent. She has spent only 23. 3% of her time on non project activities. 2. What does the case tell you about what it is like to be a project manager? A project manager provide s direction, coordination and integration to the project team * Solve out the problems and direct the team members for the solution. * Discuss with the team members whenever there is an issue and get their ideas involved in the project * Keep regular project status meetings, small discussions to coordinate and integrate.This will provide all the team members an insight on how the project is progressing Involved in organization planning * Good relationship with managers, team members and other individuals. * Coordinating with the boss and updating him/her on daily tasks * Maintains large integration with other managers when solving an issue, e. g. integration with senior marketing manager Improving the projects success rate with better leadership * star courageously * Influencing others * Act with resilienceManaging the overall schedule to ensure work is assigned and completed on time and within budget * She has been helping Victoria on her project as it was behind the projected ti me Project Managers have a huge responsibility and authority over a project, it involves identifying, tracking, managing and resolving project issues * She attended a meeting in order to fix a project issue and tried to fix them * Also she found that several clients are requesting features that are not on the project, and she conveyed to her team members that she will get on this issue right away Communication skills One good example is where Rachel goes and talks to the purchasing agent assigned to her project on getting necessary equipments to the project site earlier than planned. * She also walks down to the marketing managers office to clarify on the problem they came up with.