SCOPE OF FUNCTION
The primary responsibility of Project Management is to
apply resources to a defined goal and obtaining this goal within
time and cost constraints. The five basic activities of Project
Management include: planning, estimating,
scheduling, reporting and control. Project Management is
responsible for managing all work effort within a project.
A project manager should have leadership skills and an
appreciation of planning and control. This function is
sometimes implemented by positions referred to as "project
leader," "team leader," "foreman," or "contractor."
For a small organization, Project Management may be the
part-time responsibility of the more senior employees. In
larger organizations, where there are permanent project teams,
project Management is typically a full-time position.
SPECIFIC DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
- Executes all Project Management activities including
planning, estimating, scheduling, project reporting,
supervision and control of project resources.
- Participates in all development projects involving
the use of "PRIDE" methodologies. This includes
EEM, ISEM, and DBEM.
- Conducts formal management reviews as required during the
execution of a project.
- Executes regular project reviews to assure that
estimates and schedules are being met and takes
appropriate action when resource or scheduling
problems arise.
- Reviews and approves of all formal deliverables produced
from a project.
REQUIRED KNOWLEDGE/SKILLS/EXPERIENCE
- A thorough understanding of Project Management related
concepts including:
- Methodology Structures (including precedent relationships).
- Available and Unavailable Time (including Direct and
Indirect time).
- Effectiveness Rate.
- Estimating (both Detail and Order-of-Magnitude).
- Estimating based on bill-of-materials.
- Scheduling.
- Time reporting with "estimate to do" (as opposed to
"percent complete").
- The use of "tolerances" in detecting project
overruns/underruns.
- Skills Inventory.
- An in-depth knowledge of in-house standards relating to
Project Management, e.g., tolerance ranges for project
overruns/underruns, reporting routines, etc.
- Experience in managing the activities of others (project
leadership).
- Sensitive to the needs of project team members and
provide guidance and assistance when necessary.
- Foresight to anticipate project problem areas and take
appropriate action.
- Experience in working with Users.
- Ability to critically review formal deliverables resulting
from projects (such as those produced from the "PRIDE"
methodologies).
- Good interpersonal relations/communications skills.
- Effective writing skills.
- Possess good analytical and problem solving skills.
- Must be results oriented.
- An in-depth understanding of other IRM functions including
Enterprise Engineering, Systems Engineering, Program/Software
Engineering, Data Engineering, Data Base Administration,
Data Communications Administration, Data Processing
Operations, and the various IRM support functions.
EVALUATION OF PERFORMANCE
The following list is intended as a guide to evaluate
the performance of Project Management. Evaluation will be based
upon observation by Enterprise Resource Management, Systems
Resource Management, Data Resource Management, Data Processing
Operations, and IRM Quality Assurance.
- Assures that projects are developed within estimate,
schedule, and cost constraints.
- Project scopes and plans are well specified and thoroughly
prepared.
- All estimates and schedules are carefully prepared and
are reasonable.
- All project phases are executed correctly and in a highly
professional manner.
FUNCTIONAL RELATIONSHIPS
Subordinate to Enterprise Resource Management, Systems Resource
Management, and Data Resource Management. Responsible for
directing human resources on project activities. Enterprise
Engineering, Systems Engineering, Program/Software Engineering,
Data Engineering, Data Base Administration, and Data Communications
Administration are operationally responsible to Project Management
for project activities.
METHODOLOGY RELATIONSHIPS
This function participates in the following phases
and activities of the "PRIDE" methodologies:
For additional information on Project Management, see: