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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