Responsibilities Of A Project Manager And Management In Projects Essay.

Identify the responsibilities of a Project manager when participating in a real world project;
Define the role of management in projects, particularly from the view point of the practitioner as a member of the project team;
Apply project management skills, methods, techniques and tools to a real world problem typical of a project manager;
Explain areas of knowledge relevant to project management; and
Discuss the many problems facing the project manager and to note the "best practices" being utilised in order to produce effective, efficient and quality projects on time and within budget.

Students from different level like PhD, doctorate, etc. are worries about the output of scholarly research. At present, research centres do not have much exposure with the effect of this they need to establish new updated centres. Developed web application must be involved in the centre which performs over internet (Styhre, & Borjesson, 2011).

Australian National University has the most authenticate research centre who perform genuine scholarly research concerning social media. This project will be beneficial for the company as it provides validate information about the social media.

This project will also be beneficial for the project stakeholder as developed web application is used in this project to distribute the journal paper, publication, articles, thesis, etc. to the stakeholder.

To make this project successful, all the activities must be performed within given time frame of 8 months and within given budget of AUD 50,000 (Wabocha, 2017).

MOV is a tool which is used to measure the success factor of the project and to analyse the project goal. To implement web application is the basis goal of this project. Here are some important area of this project are discussed below:

Customer – They are the consumers of this project and further they will be company’s member. Consumers will be benefitted more with this project by getting information on social media (Allen, 2015).

Operational –Overall efficiency at operational level will be improved.

Financial – The overall condition of Readers lab financially will be amended.

Strategy – Readers Lab operational efficiency and its management will be improved through this project.

Social – With the developing Social Media Research Centre, students from various field will get benefitted.

There are some values developed for Readers Lab:

Better – through this project researchers Lab will get their own identity as before they do not have any (Biafore, & Stover, 2012).

Work more – to work more leads to the nonstop progress in the performance of the operations.

Measurable value Matrix for Organization

• Through this project, customer’s base will be increased. In the form of membership fee more cash will be generated. Per month revenue from present fee is AUD 2500 and expected revenue from fee is AUD 400.
• This project will help to increase the Readers Lab market share from Current rate 7% to 15 % (Creasey, & Hiatt, 2012).
• Another benefit is to increase the quality of publication, journals, research, etc. and target will be increased from 650 articles to 1000 articles per month.
• Now, the number of uploads file by Readers Lab is 200 research and it is expected that it will reach to 500 after implementing this project.
• For developing this project more expertise, researchers, tutors will be hired to enhance the expectancy and efficiency of this project that leads to increase the more customers (Joslin, & Müller, 2016).

Standards for Acceptance

Standard Criteria	Charter Sign off	Authorization	Due date
To establish Web Application for this project	The Charter Sign off criteria shall be performed after implementing and testing is done of Web Application.	From management and project manager	August, 2017
To establish Web Application with authentic information with scholarly outputs.	The Charter Sign off criteria shall be performed after evaluation is done by experts.	From experts	September, 2017
To establish database, hardware and software, Web Application.	The charter sign off criteria shall be performed after evaluation of the hardware and software of the project.	From System expert	October, 2017

(Salaka, & Prabhu, 2008)

Assumptions

• Through agreements, all expects and researchers will be appointed.
• To develop researcher Lab, approval will be needed by the legal consultant (Styhre, & Borjesson, 2011)

Constraints

• Approval from government is needed.
• Regarding development and design of the project, management approval is needed.

Stakeholders

Stakeholder are the members who involve into the project like:

Students – They get scholar research output from social media.

Consumers- It includes purchaser of output of scholarly articles that is accessible on web application (Wabocha, 2017).

Sponsor agent – Who sponsors the whole project.

Manager – Manager of the particular project who review the whole process of designing and implementing.

Assumptions

Experts – They provide their required expertise and skills for developing the project.

Government – It provides help in getting approval and evaluates the requirement of rules and regulation properly (Allen, 2015).

Vendors – Who supply the database, hardware and software and other physical material that is useful in the project or in implementing the project.

Learned lessons

For completing this ongoing project successfully all the shortcoming of this project must be evaluated. Some are mentioned as under:

Develop risk management policy – There should be some risk management policy available for the ongoing project regarding social media research centre (Biafore, & Stover, 2012). There are various risks like shortage of funding and time limit, these could be damaging for this project and they should be controlled accordingly.

Specify the scope – There must be some scope for this ongoing project like its levels and limits must be specified.

Contingency plan – Contingencies plan must be there and this should be established and approved by the lab researchers (Creasey, & Hiatt, 2012).

Objective of Plan

Communication process plays an important role for accomplishing and implementing project plan successfully (Joslin, & Müller, 2016). With the help of proper communication stakeholders of ongoing project could be updated regarding implementing, management and planning functions of current project. In order to update to the stakeholders and organization about the current ongoing project, lateral and horizontal communication shall be used (Salaka, & Prabhu, 2008). By using these communication process, all the queries of stakeholder will be minimised that leads to reduce the risk factor.

Communication plan is mentioned here by taking all the stakeholders into consideration:

Serial no.	Among	Meeting  purpose
1.	Management and project manager	This meeting is organised to specify the particular achievable objective in terms of ongoing project of developing social media research centre (Styhre, & Borjesson, 2011).
2.	Project manager and team	In order to select the scope and activities of the ongoing project.
4.	Stakeholders and management	This meeting is organized to update to each and every stakeholder about the development of social media research centre.
6.	Project team	Process of alteration and implementation of the plan is discussed.

(Wabocha, 2017)

Secretary of Research Lab develops and submits the timeframe of meeting and that needs to be supervised and approved by the management and project manager (Allen, 2015).

To identify the stakeholders and sharing of useful information

S.n	Receiver	Sender	Type of Information
1.	Team executive members	Manager, Researchers lab management and workers of company.	roles and responsibilities, activities to be initiated
2.	Project Promoter	Manager and company’s management	profit margin, period of repayment
3.	Social media scholarly research	Manager and team of project	Project’s nature, role and involvement of experts.
4.	Professors	Management and manger of project	Professor involvement in the whole process of project
5.	Vendor	Manager	Requirement of software and hardware and other material.

(Biafore, & Stover, 2012)

Communication plan Template

Information must be equally distributed among all the section of the project departments. Here are mentioned some frequency of information, means, location and purpose of communication.

S.N.	Among	where to be shared	Why to be shared	How to be shared	Meeting schedule
1.	Manager and management of project	Company’s office	To discuss the scope of project	Face to face meeting	In a month
2.	Manager and team of project	Anyplace	To manage the flow of work	Face to face meeting, video calls, etc.	In a week
3.	Team of project	Manager’s office	To alter the required changes in the charter	Face to face meeting	In a week
4.	Stakeholder and manager	Hotel, client’s place	To distribute the important information	Face to face meeting	In two months

(Creasey, & Hiatt, 2012)

Change management

Change management comes into existence when there is some changes required in the ongoing project of developing social media research centre. To overcome with the deficiencies of project capabilities of issue management is used. Here are some techniques of issue management which will be used in this ongoing project (Joslin, & Müller, 2016).

Issue logs Establishment –whenever any log, deficiency, difficulty rise at the time implementing the project, its activities is analysed and recorded and this process is known as issue log. These details are recorded in the issue log:

Time – when this specific issue is raised.

Issue type – identify the type of issue if it is financial, technical or any other issue.

Person – who initiated this whole process and identify the issue.

In the end, if any alteration done into the ongoing project would be communicated to all the member of the project (Salaka, & Prabhu, 2008).

Meeting schedule

In order to make a project successful, many meeting are to be held and these meetings have their own schedule. Here are some agenda of meetings that is to be held for ongoing project:

S.N.	Among	Meeting Aims	Meeting objective
1.	Manager and management of project	To choose the project outcome	To develop the objective of project successfully.
2.	Manager and team of project	To plan actions of project	To mention the project scope.
3.	Team of project	To alter the required changes as mention by the manager.	To prepare modified project plan
4.	Stakeholder and manager	To inform all stakeholder	To spread the important information

Requirements	Expenditures
Social Media Advertisement	15000
Project management team	11000
Salary of Experts	12000
Project Establishment	9500
Other expenses	2500
Total Expenses	50000

References

Allen, M. (2015). Strategic Communication for Sustainable Organizations. Springer.

Biafore, B., & Stover, T. (2012). Your Project Management Coach (1st ed.). Somerset: Wiley.

Creasey, T., & Hiatt, J. (2012). Change Management: The People Side of Change. Prosci Research.

Joslin, R., & Müller, R. (2016). The impact of project methodologies on project success in different project environments. International Journal Of Managing Projects In Business, 9(2), 364-388.

Salaka, V., & Prabhu, V. (2008). Project management and scheduling for enterprise integration. International Journal Of Project Organisation And Management, 1(2), 167.

Styhre, A., & Borjesson, S. (2011). Project management in the culture industry: balancing structure and creativity. International Journal Of Project Organisation And Management, 3(1), 22. 

Wabocha, S. (2017). Leadership, Information Communication And Strategic Plan Implementation By Financial Intermediaries In Developing Economies: A Case Of Saccos In Kenya. Journal Of Academy Of Business And Economics, 17(1), 103-112. https://dx.doi.org/10.18374/jabe-17-1.10