Scope of UIT Project Managers

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Project managers (PM) oversee the end-to-end project management and success by maintaining a holistic project perspective that links products, processes, and people.

Project Manager Tasks

The scope of project managers tasks during the project timeline could include:

• Developing action plans and estimating resource requirements
• Managing project scope, timeline, and quality
• Maintaining the project plan, ensuring task completion, and coordinating team efforts
• Conducting status tracking meetings, and facilitating team coordination
• Escalating changes with remediation plans for sponsor approval and providing project status updates to stakeholders
• Proactively addressing project issues, risks, and decisions
• Facilitating discussions to reach consensus and recommendations
• Creating a change management strategy and communication plan
• Handling charter origination, stakeholder management, and risk control
• Providing project status updates and necessary escalations to Project Sponsors, Steering Committee, or executives
• Tracking project status, leading planning/review meetings, and coordinating project deliverables with the team
• Offering go-live recommendations and preparing the project close-out report

Project Phases