How Do You Be An Effective Project Manager?
Any activity that takes more than 1 step could be considered a project. Being an effective project manager is simple if you remember that your job is to manage the project. That means riding herd over what can be changed during the execution of a project. There are only 3 things that can be modified while working on a project: schedule, scope and resources. Define the scope of the project clearly. Make sure to know when you are finished. This may mean breaking a project into smaller phases if it is a large-scale project. Get the team to agree to the scope at the beginning and document what success looks like. Have a clear discussion of what the project is and more importantly, what it is not. This will flush out assumptions people may have that differ from reality. Know the team and what they are expected to deliver. This is your extended team, and they will either be doing the work themselves or managing the people who are doing the work. In any case, they need to be held accountable
