Project Manager Responsibilities
Outline
This document outlines the responsibilities and expectations of Project Managers. Project Managers are intended to manage a single (or for experienced PMs a few) project within a subteam.
Responsibilities
Conduct project meetings
These can be regularly scheduled or selected whenever people are available
These can be work sessions or synchronization meetings
Sufficient meeting minutes should be taken
Delegate tasks
Assign out the work required for the project so that task interdependency is minimized
Assist, review, and debug technical work of others
Reassign tasks as required
Make sure the task workload is manageable
Report project progress to subteam leads and/or directors
Plan and orchestrate project timelines
Work with subteam leads for planning timelines
Work with subteam members in carrying out tasks
Ensure project documentation
PMs do not need to do documentation themselves, but if they aren’t, they should ensure their team is doing sufficient documentation
Documentation should allow for directors, subteam leads, and integration members to be able to easily gauge the state, direction, and timeline of a project
Documentation includes meeting minutes, but having technical specific documentation is also important for each project
Communicate with team and individual contributors
PMs should attend integration meetings relevant to their project
PMs are the interface between a project’s individual contributors and the rest of the team’s integration and architecture effort
PMs of one subteam are allowed to interact with PMs of another!
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