GMS 450 Lecture 3: GMS 450 Week 3

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Global Management Studies
• Course: GMS 450
• Professor: Mohammad Nikoofal

Document Summary

Selecting a project manager, describing his/her roles and responsibilities. Discuss the necessary competencies to be an effective project manager. Different project organizations and fitting projects into the parent organization. Project manager is usually selected after project is selected. The pm is selected through interview between senior management and prospective pm. Once selected, the pm and/or a senior manager calls a launch meeting of stakeholders, and the knowledgeable people to begin the project planning. The project launch meeting is an opportunity for the pm to . You will find that components of project management are easy such as budgeting, scheduling, etc. The hard part about project management is being the pm itself. Compare a project manager with a functional manager (head of manufacturing or marketing division) Analytical approach (leading to local-optima) vs. systems approach (finding a global optima) Must communicate effectively with the various stakeholders of the project. This includes client, project team, senior management, and outside interested parties.