Project Management

Executive Summary

The following pages discuss the traits and characteristics of successful project managers. The major characteristics of successful project managers are trust and autonomy, promotes trust and communication between team members, promotes trust between the client and the team, fault tolerant, practice by example, planning, quality control, preventing problems, constant control, using the experience of others. The assignment will include an explanation for each one of them. Further, the assignment highlights the key traits and characteristics which make Lena Merrall, the project manager in the case study a good manager and a good choice by the company. Lena Merrall was a good choice because of the fact that she was innovative, creative, had trust in her team members and knew how and when what needs to be done by whom.

Key Words: Project, Managers, Communication, Traits, Trust, Quality, Characteristics.

Project Management

Introduction

Project managers have their own variety. These were all different people, with individual characteristics and personalities working in different companies with different corporate cultures. Some of them are from other countries. Someone is too harsh, others - too soft, but all project leaders who respect and whose contribution to the project is evident, there were some common characteristics or traits, or rather, the principles which characterize them. These traits and characteristics are examined in detail in the next section. Further, a discussion on whether Lena Merrall appears to be a good or bad choice for project manager for this project will also be presented.

Discussion

Part One

The following are the qualities required and behaviors to be a good project manager.

Trust and Autonomy

Not control his team planning tasks, deciding what tasks each person should work on and how to do their job duty. Instead, he assumes that the team is the expert and so I do know, they are the ones who know the best way to do their work and those responsible for carrying out the project. Help the team to self-organize to achieve the project objectives to communicate, share ideas, collaborate and keep improving the way they work to be more productive, flexible and adaptive to changes in customer needs (Lock, Pp. 78, 2007). Gives Facilitates the team and make decisions by consensus. This encourages collaboration between team members in decision-making processes. He acts as a servant of his team, so that progress is not blocked. He helps the team go forward, stay focused on their work, remove inefficiencies and maximize their productivity. He removes the impediments in the way that they might not be able to resolve on its own.

Promotes Trust and Communication between Team Members

A good project manager promotes honest conversations, sharing of information and frequent communication between team members. He provides security and confidence to the members of the team. Maintains a constructive environment to converge and prevents conflicts. He listens, take the place of the others to understand their reasons, to agree on the problem, and propose alternative solutions and respects the views of all (Lewis, Pp. 165, 2006).

Promotes Trust between the Client and the Team

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