Project Management: Definition, Characteristics, and Role of Project Manager

Project
Management

INTRODUCTION
Project management is define as set of practices which are conducted by an organization
in order to meet objective and goal in particular time duration. This will include several activities
or practices such as initiating, conducting planning, execution, controlling, accomplishment of
work (Bucero and Englund, 2015). Organization selected for this assignment is Essential
Clothing Company, which is situated at Uttoxeters, United Kingdom. They offer wide range of
clothing, decorative and gift items at very attractive as well as affordable price. Now they are
planning to produce new website and intranet which help them in conducting effective internal
communication. Topics included in report are introduction and meaning of project, its
characteristics and role of project manager. Along with this it will also include application of
theoretical framework and evaluation of composition and management of teams in project
environment.
MAIN BODY
1. Define a project, its characteristics and the role of the project manager.
A project is define as activities which are conducted in order to meet specific standard of
the procedure which is adopted for developing a particular products and services (Burke, 2013).
It is also consider as collaboration of activities that include research as well as design work for
gaining unique outcome. In respect of Essential Clothing Company, the project decided by their
project manager is development of new website and intranet that will help them conducting
effective internal communication. For this it is essential for respective company project manager
to consider several characteristics of project while developing their project, some of them are
mentioned below:-
 It is necessary for Essential Clothing Company project manger to develop a unique
project as well as it should not be used again in the same way (The seven key
characteristics of a project, 2019).
 Project must cut across the lines of respective organization because it must be draw from
the skills and abilities of manager.
These are some major characteristics of project which is necessary for Essential Clothing
Company's project manager to consider. While this they also play several important role so that