PROJECT MANAGEMENT

What an IT manager must do to create and maintain a successful project team?



What an IT manager must do to create and maintain a successful project team?

Introduction

The project manager is mainly responsible for developing, and maintaining a project team. The manager plays a vital role in completion and delivery of the project in time. The development of successful project team is essential for assuring the success of the projects developed by the team. This paper discusses the roles of an IT project team manager for ensuring the development of a successful project team.

Discussion

The IT project manager has to achieve the critical tasks of developing and maintaining the project teams. The management of IT project is significantly different from the other projects, as the IT projects have the goals of meeting the project deadlines along with developing the product according to the user specifications. During the project development lifecycle, various stages come where the software or program fail, or does not fulfill the expected requirements. These unpleasant situations create frustration in the development team. Also, the creation of differences in IT project team members is much more as compared to marketing or sales project. The IT project manager has to deal with the areas of human resources, as well as software errors and other development constraints.

The project manager must ensure effective communication between all the team members. He must apply leadership strategies in collaboration with the friendly and pleasant work environment for the team members.

In case of unsuccessful project team, the project will have the issues such as not meeting the deadline or having technical flaws. The key stake holders will be the customer and the development organization. Failing in meeting the deadline or customer specifications will build the negative reputation for the firm. One of the main reasons for ...