Chapter 11 The project Team

 Complete Project needs a team, which is a group of individuals working interdependently to accomplish the project objective. When a project manager start a project, first thing must do is find and choose a team members who are selected based on their expertise and experience but also their availability.

 Project kickoff meeting should be held as early as possible to sets the tone for the project, and provides opportunity for team to know each other. Plus will clarify roles and responsibilities, describe protocols and plans, and allow time for questions and comments.

Successful project team members have to be open to share information, ideas, and feelings. Furthermore provide beneficial feedback to each other on the daily work even if not their task, they need to be a resource to the others on the team.

Project manager need to have diversity on the team because that will create a unique environment of ideas will benefit the project.

Ethical behavior is needed within a project organization and it is critical in project business relationships with the customer, supplier, and subcontractors. Project organization can take action to prevent ethical behavior by having a written policy and to provide training about ethics in the workplace.

Chapter 10 The Project Manager

There are specific responsibilities a successful project manager needs to have such as making sure customer is satisfied, and work scope is completed in quality manner within budget and on time.

The project manager needs to develop an environment to keep all team members in communication connect by providing a proactive planning and outstanding leadership roll. Also project manager need to have all team member involved in the project plan and addressing any problem as soon as it appears to avoid any delay on the schedule.

Project manager skills very important to keep the project going for instance project manager need to remain calm, Cope with constantly changing conditions, act as a buffer between the project team and either the customer or upper management, develop a good sense of humor, and keep physically fit to improve ability to handle stress.

Successful project manager create time for the team members to listen to their feedback and learn from it, by doing that will help team member to release their stress and it will be a learning experience for future projects.

Project manager needs to have self-confidence, integrity and respect for all team members throughout the project.  Additionally need to have self-discipline, and to be able to manage time well and prioritize tasks.

Chapter 9 Closing the Project

Closing project is the last and final step of the project life cycle. It occur when the customer accept the project deliverables and agreed on the final look of the project.

There is action engage with the closing process such as collecting and making final payments to the contractor.

Project manager after a successful project need to evaluate each and every member worked on the project for some kind of recognition and celebration for that success.

Post-project evaluation is a significant activity during the closing phase. Project manager should have an individual meeting with each of the team members because that would give that individual to speak up openly to express their opinion on the project process. Also these individual would give valuable feedback can be used for future projects. 

Group meeting is essential during the closing process because would let the project manager talk about what happened during the process and give recommendations for improvement.

There is learning lessons involved during the project. It is necessary to be documented and saved for future purposes or even current situation because this can help to improve performance.

During project closing each individual team member should ensure to keep copy of their work and if there is any suggestion improvement related to their part on the project because it can be retrieved for future use.

Chapter 8 Managing Risk

Risk always existent in every action we do or take in our live. Risk need to be accounted for when a project manager laydown the project plan. What is a risk, and how project manger can identify risks?

Risk is an uncertain event that if it occurs can jeopardize accomplishing the project objective.

The way risk can be identify in two different ways. First, customer need to identified any kind of risks they believe can jeopardize their project, and they need to document those risks in the project charter, by doing that would give the contractor a chance to evaluate the project appropriately so, would not be an surprise issue in the future. Second way is to identify the risks, contractor need to identify any risk they believe might occur in the proposal.

Project manager also should assign an expert team player that can be able to identifying potential risks could occur during the project that would negatively impact accomplishing the project objective.

Assessing risks it is highly important for a project manager because will let manager to prioritize which risks need to be worked on and how much of threat can happened from each of these risks based on the team member report, who been assigned to rate these risks.

Project manager need to be always aware of the risks would happened, and have to have a plan risk response to this risks because if he/she can prevent or reduce potential risk would avoid losing money or time can be used on different part of the project.

Chapter 5 Developing the Schedule

 Project manager will be the one responsible for the performing the activity to make the planning process work easier. Project manager need to developing a schedule, which is a timetable for the plan however, it cannot be established until the network based plan has been created. Project manager is responsibility to estimate the try and quantities of resources, which include people, materials, equipment, and facilities.

Project manger job to control the project and make sure that planning activity been performed according to the schedule. With first day on the project, it is critical for project manager to watch how the plan going according to the schedule. 

Project manager need to address any negative issue as soon as possible because that would minimize the negative impact on scope and budget. In a case of the project is falls too far behind the scheduling time.

Project manager need to concentrated with those individual who is responsible for that task to get it completed as soon as possible because it is normally would requires spending more money or reduce the scope or quality.  Manager needs to compare between the actual progress and planned progress because that would help to identified early issued so, can be fixed as soon as possible.