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Objectives:-
• Name key responsibilities of a Project
Manager
• Discuss characteristics and activities required
for a Project Manager
• Appreciate the impact of team and culture of
managing a project
• Improve critical reading skills
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Responsibilities of a Project Manager
• Responsibility to the parent organisation
• Responsibility to the client
• Responsibility to the team members
• “Above all, the PM must never allow senior
management to be surprised”
• Being prepared to give ‘bad news’
Meredith & Mantel, 2005
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Characteristics of a Project Manager
Maylor