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Lights On Managerial Responsibilities

by Dhirendra Rawat
(Bangalore, India)

A manager should and have to run faster than his team in all respects.

Project managers must have good vision and anticipating power because backups will not work always.

People learn from their mistakes. A project manager is the person who is saturated with the mistakes. What it means is he or she did all the great mistakes or learned from the mistakes of other people.

A manager is responsible for managing project scope (cost, time, quality) and above all client satisfaction.

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Common responsibilities you will find in your project management or while discussing with others:

a)A manager should and must be proactive with verbal and written communicator skills, including good, active listening skills.

b)A manager should take all the details of the project end to end and decide what work need to be done. Recruit, interview and hire the best people.

c) Divide the work in modules and assign the work to team members and keep track of what everyone in the team is doing. Make sure the team gets their work done.

d)Give inputs on what features or functionality the team should build and give inputs on how to make features better. Help the team if not able to resolve by themselves.

e)Make commitments to management about how much team can do by a certain date and be responsible for the team meeting the commitments made to the management.

f)Be ready to provide advice and input to the team on technical difficulties that come-up.

g)Plan trainings and other skills development for team-members and have regular 1:1 meetings with team to provide coaching and mentoring.

h)Stay up to date on tools and technologies the team is using and industry news and developments.

i)Plan and manage budget and the financial. Anticipate tools, skills and other future needs.

j)Remove under-performers, do performance evaluations and give feedback to the team members.

k)Draw a performance improvement plan for under-performers which are measurable and achieve able.

l)Try to influence people and motivate them towards their goal and expectations.

m)Always be focused on organizational goals


If you don't want to take risk then learn from the mistakes of others.