Académique Documents
Professionnel Documents
Culture Documents
Conflict Management
Team building
Leadership
Hard skills
Risk Management
Planning
Resource Management
Value Management
Cost Control/ Cash flow
Attributes of Effective
Project Managers
Credibility:
Sensitivity
Successful PMs are not conflict avoiders. They sense conflict early,
then confront and deal with it before the conflict escalates
1. Systems thinker
2. Personal integrity
3. Proactive
4. High emotional
intelligence (EQ).
5. General business
perspective
6. Effective time
management
7. Skillful politician
8. Optimist
Project Manager contradictions
Hands-off/Hands-on.
Architects ?
QS or other surveyors ?
Construction Managers ?
Project Managers?
Contractors ?
Facilities Managers?
Three Major Questions facing Project Managers
Every project deals with phases of technical problems or snags. These snags
and its solutions can cause the project staff to have mood swings in relation to
the project success and failure. This directly affects the performance of the
team members:
Motivating personnel
Handing failure
Maintaining communication
The role of the project manager: all
things to all people? (Sommerville et
al., 2010)
Abstract
Purpose – Writers over the years have sought to define
the nature and roles of a project manager. The attempts
at these definitions have been based on rather historic
writings of what a manager should do. This paper seeks to
provide an up-to-date understanding of the current roles
of a construction project manager.
Code of conduct
Professional standards and personal integrity
APM Competence Framework
1. Ethics, compliance and
professionalism
2. Team management
3. Conflict management 15. Transition management
4. Leadership 16. Financial management
5. Procurement 17. Resource capacity planning
6. Contract management 18. Governance arrangements
7. Requirements management 19. Stakeholder and comm’ management
8. Solutions development 20. Frameworks and methodologies
9. Schedule management 21. Reviews
10. Resource management 22. Change control
11. Budgeting and cost control 23. Independent assurance
12. Risk, opportunity and issue 24. Business case
management
25. Asset allocation
13. Quality management
26. Capability development
14. Consolidated planning 27. Benefits management
APM Rating scale
Role Profile – PM (Entry)
Role Profile – PM (Master)
Task 1: Churchill as a Project Manager -
refer to the enhancement materials in GCU Learn.
Upward Communication
to more senior
management
Lateral
Lateral Communication to
communication to Project Manager friends, social group
peers, functional and colleagues and
groups and organisation informal
customers and formal
Downward
Communication -
subordinates and project
office personnel
Leadership in Projects
“ A relationship through which one person influences the behaviour or actions
of other people”