Project Management Report: Duties, Responsibilities, and Outcomes

This report provides a detailed analysis of the essential duties and responsibilities of a project manager. It emphasizes the importance of supporting team members to ensure high-quality work and effective communication. The report highlights the project manager's role in financial record-keeping, ensuring accuracy in project budgets, and facilitating the smooth transition of staff through different roles. Furthermore, it underscores the significance of reviewing project outcomes and processes against the project scope and plan, involving team members in project reviews, and documenting outcomes along with lessons learned. The report also references key project management texts and resources to support its findings, making it a valuable resource for understanding the multifaceted role of a project manager.

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Duties of a Project Manager
The Project manager can be understood to have a crucial role to play in the overall
management of a project. With respect to this, the report will underline the different duties of the
project manager and the manner in which the duties are carried out.
Providing support to team members to ensure good quality work
The project manager would be essentially required to make use of sufficient project
management tools and a sound communication medium in order to ensure that they are being
able to feel a part of the organization (Fleming & Koppelman, 2016). When the project manager
will be able to communicate with the different members in the right manner then, in such a case,
he will be able to track the progress and ensure that the project is submitted during the deadline
and that good quality work can be ensured successfully.
Ensure financial record keeping and accuracy
A financial manager would be required to be a good financial manager as well. The
project has various phases which has impending costs and hence, the project manager would be
required to take the assistance of the finance department and monitor the functioning of the
project successfully, this will help in ensuring that the Project manager would be able to manage
the overall financial record keeping and ensure the overall accuracy of the project budget
(Kerzner, 2018). This will assist in ensuring that the firm is being able to manage the overall
financial record keeping and accuracy well.
Ensure transition of staff through different roles

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In order to ensure that the staff is being able to manage the transition in the right manner,
the project manager will engage in 1:1 sessions with the different project members. In this way,
the firm will successfully be able to see to it that, it is successfully able to manage the right kind
of stakeholders in the right manner and moreover, to ensure that it is being able to ensure that the
staff can transit easily through different roles (Schwalbe, 2015). When engaging personally with
the members, the firm will be able to get an idea about the mindset of the staff and therefore,
assist them in performing well and carrying out their different duties in the right manner.
Reviewing project outcomes and processes against the project scope and plan
The project outcomes and the related reviews form an essential part of the organization
and any firm as present in the business environment would be required to ensure that the
outcomes have to be aligned with the plans (Kerzner, 2017). The project scope can be
understood to be a document which is prepared much before the commencement of the project
and hence, the project manager has to sit along with the different project members and align the
planned outcomes with the actual outcomes. In line of this, the procedures and plans which have
not gone as per the different guidelines have to be reviewed accordingly. This will then assist in
understanding how the project team has performed and additionally, what are the shortcomings
which the project team would be required to improve in the next step.
Involve team members in project review
The team members need to be made a part of the project team by engaging in various
employee involvement plans (Heagney, 2016). The employee involvement plans form an
integral part of the organization and in line of this, it is integral for the project manager to
undertake the initiatives such as employee outings, management of team member queries, regular

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meetings and opinion handling so as to ensure that the project team is successfully able to
involve the different team members in the project (Meredith, Mantel Jr & Shafer, 2017). It will
be through this initiative of the project managers, that the firm will be able to ensure success in
the long run.
Documenting and reporting outcomes along with lessons learnt
The documentation and reporting of the outcomes also forms an integral part of the
organization`s project management team. With respect to this, documentation of the outcomes
has a crucial role to play in deciding the manner in which the team will be able to successfully
attain its overall objectives (Harrison & Lock, 2017). With respect to this, it is the goal of the
manager to see to it that, he is able to document the project outcomes and take notes. The project
manager can take the assistance of various softwares like Microsoft Outlook and related tools to
document the overall outcomes and can take the assistance of the team members to understand
the areas where the project team was lagging. This would assist in understanding the manner in
which the different team members have lagged in their overall approach and help them in
understanding the manner in which the firm would be required to deal with these shortcomings
and hence, prepare the project and work on it in a better manner (Schwalbe, 2015).

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References
Fleming, Q. W., & Koppelman, J. M. (2016, December). Earned value project management.
Project Management Institute.
Harrison, F., & Lock, D. (2017). Advanced project management: a structured approach.
Routledge.
Heagney, J. (2016). Fundamentals of project management. Amacom.
Kerzner, H. (2017). Project management: a systems approach to planning, scheduling, and
controlling. John Wiley & Sons.
Kerzner, H. (2018). Project management best practices: Achieving global excellence. John
Wiley & Sons.
Meredith, J. R., Mantel Jr, S. J., & Shafer, S. M. (2017). Project management: a managerial
approach. John Wiley & Sons.
Schwalbe, K. (2015). Information technology project management. Cengage Learning.