Capm, Deck 3: Role Of The Project Manager Flashcards
Responsibilities of a Project Manager
1) developing the project plan; managing project 2) stakeholders, 3) team, 4) risk, 5) schedule, 6) budget, 7) conflicts.
Project Manager - roles
Project managers are generalists with many skills in their repertoires. They are also problem solvers who wear many hats. Project managers might indeed possess technical skills, but technical skills are not a prerequisite for sound project management skills.
PMI talent triangle: 1) technical project management; 2) leadership; 3) strategic and business management
PMI talent triangle (looks like a triforce)
Technical project management: knowledge, skills, and behaviors related to specific domains of project, program, and portfolio management
Leadership: knowledge, skills, and behaviors specific to leadership-oriented skills that help an organization achieve its business goals
Strategic and business management: knolwedge of and expertise in the industry or organization that enhances performance and better delivers business outcomes.
Technical Project Management Skills
PM should have knowledge of the following: agile practices; data gathering/modeling; earned value management; governance (project, program, portfolio); life cycle management; performance management; requirements management and traceability; risk, schedule and scope management; time, budget and cost estimation.
Strategic and Business Management Skills
PMs should have knowledge of the following: benefits management and realization; business models and structures; competitive analysis;
Leadership qualities and skills
Being a visionary, optimistic, and collaborative; Manage relationships and conflict by building trust, satisfying concerns, seeking consensus, or by applying persuasion, negotiation, compromise, and conflict resolution skills; Communicate by managing expectations, accepting feedback graciously, giving feedback constructively, and asking and listening; Give credit to others where due; Being a life-long learner; Prioritize work by reviewing and adjusting as necessary; Find and use a prioritization method that works for the project; Maintain vigilance on primary project constraints;Being able to apply critical thinking; Differentiate high-level strategic priorities.
Team manager - characteristics and responsibilities
Directs using positional power
Focuses on operational issues and problem solving
Focuses on systems and structure
Team leader - characteristics and responsibilities
Focuses on relationships with people
Focuses on vision, alignment, motivation, and inspiration
Laissez-faire (leadership style)
Allows the team to have complete freedom to make decisions concerning the completion of their work (aka "taking a hands-off style")
Transactional (leadership style)
Focuses on goals and feedback, and motivates through a system of rewards
Servant leader (leadership style)
Demonstrates commitment to serve and put other people first and focuses on other people's growth, learning, development, autonomy, and wellbeing
Transformational (leadership style)
empowers followers through idealized attributes and behaviors, inspirational motivation, encouragement for innovation and creativity, and individual consideration
Charismatic (leadership style)
involves self-promoting personality, high/great energy level, self-confident, and holds strong convictions
Interactional (leadership style)
Occurs when a behavior of one member causes change in the behavior of another; it is a combination of transactional, transformational, and charismatic
Cognitive level (level of integration for project managers)
Illustrates the method used to manage a project
The method selected typically depends on the specific project's characteristics.
Context level (level of integration for project managers)
Covers changes in the context in which business and projects take place today (contrasted with the past few decades)
Process level (level of integration for project managers)
Covers the project's processes and activities used to achieve goals
Personality
Personality is defined as the set of characteristics or qualities that form an individual's distinctive character.