What is a project manager?

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What is a project manager? Here I offer some book definitions, descriptions from project managers and my own take on the role. Enjoy!!
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[@gerlindechristina238]

Absolutely love the 'Junior' definitions of a project manager🙂

[@InfluentialPMO]

Me too! :) Some good ones in there.

[@TheEmpressOsmanov]

Your video is a gem, the role is very well explained and you encompass trough your explanation different aspects which are crucial to really understand what a project manager is. So thank you 😊

[@rikkilambo]

"Old truth reborn as new ideas" 🤣🤣🤣

[@martinjarvis9687]

As a construction project manager I describe my job as juggling chain saws while riding a bike on a tight rope

[@InfluentialPMO]

I know the feeling! 😅

[@LD-zg1xv]

😂

[@hamzaabujaleel188]

@martinjarvis9687 can i ask you if its worth becoming a construction project manager ?? On Income and development basis ?

[@daianeschroeder7308]

Really love your videos and also help me a lot in my day-to-day work !!

[@InfluentialPMO]

Thank you! I'm delighted to hear it! 😀

[@Onlinepmcourses]

I like this. My view is we should never let anyone put any limits on our role. Because, sooner or later, we'll find ourselves at that boundary, needing to take one more step to get the job done.

[@InfluentialPMO]

That sounds like the voice of experience... thank you Mike, I couldn't agree more.

[@Onlinepmcourses]

@@InfluentialPMO Cheers. If course I could be cheeky and observe that it's not unknown for the PMO to push us over the boundaries they sought to impose at the start of the project!

[@InfluentialPMO]

I'm sure no PMO would ever do such a thing.... 🤣

[@meridaphoenix4036]

I am so thankful for this. I work in a small organisation in Indonesia. Just exactly yesterday, I went to my director's and ask what I should do. I dont feel I accomplish anything being a project manager of almost a year already. I dont know what to do and caught up in doing small things that I dont need to focus on. Public speaking and leading meeting are some of my challenges. I am thinking about resigning cause I dont give my best here. I am giving myself a month to change bit by bit. I watch your videos religiously and hope I can do this job properly.

[@InfluentialPMO]

I’ve had a little time to consider this. It’s hard to give advice in this situation without knowing a lot more. I guess the real question you’re facing is whether you can achieve your goals and your full potential where you are. If not, finding a better role would help. But, make sure you find out. Talk to your boss about what you hope to achieve and see if it’s possible. And, in the meantime, seek to improve those meetings and public speaking skills. They will come in useful. Hope this helps.

[@sabugdalantx]

Very nice as PMO Director your content are spot on! Best wishes

[@InfluentialPMO]

Thank you, much appreciated

[@davidc2758]

Some organisation requires a PM role to consist more scope like as BA and Product. Given that constant change in working environment, would say now PM role is not like it used to be with pure managing a project without going technical and understanding of it both front end, middle office and backend. Met countless of business PM or ITPM that is not technical but just purely managing a project by doing budgeting, managing timeline and progress analysis. lastly most of them don’t get selected for the next project. A lot of company nowadays prefer to have sort of like a hybrid project manager role.

[@paulsarodh5460]

Superb 🥀🌺🌺🌺🌺🥌🌷🥀🥌

[@InfluentialPMO]

Thank you so much! 😀

[@alexeysokol2571]

Project Manager is Challenge and Change Manager? Might be?

[@RC-fi8nn]

00:05:10 I found this part really interesting - I'm quite quiet and analytical, but I always assumed more extroverted characters would succeed as a pm. Can an introvert succeed in this field too? Great vid!

[@InfluentialPMO]

I think you could succeed as I've seen many introverts that already have.

[@chriswright7167]

Hello. Thank you for your videos. Im currently considering a career in PM. I have found a course online in Prince2. It will give me foundation and practitioner certs once completed and passed. Have you had any experience in online courses or do you have any reccomendations? Thank you.

[@InfluentialPMO]

This will sound a little like a non-answer - so apologies in advance - but when deciding on professional qualifications, take a look at the job adverts for your desired role, in the location of interest. See what qualifications - if any - that they look for. Make that a first step. If they don't offer an answer (they usually do) then it really is a matter of geography. In UK, people do look for PRINCE2 still, whilst elsewhere there's more preference for PMI. I make a video about that a while back - kzbin.info/www/bejne/noGTn3iQZ9tmq9U

[@txhondaguy]

I have a degree in accounting. Been in it for a few years. Wanted to switch to project management. I don't have leadership experience but I know I can do it. What key words in a job search should I look for?

[@InfluentialPMO]

Searching for "project manager" is the best obvious start, but based on your accounting background - maybe throw that into the mix too. There are projects being delivered in accountancies, or for accounting systems, or in other financial institutions and regulators - for any of them, having a subject matter expert delivering the project could be beneficial. If you know of something in the profession that people are generally worried about, chances are there will be project opportunities in that space. And that doesn't mean you'll only be working accounting projects forever - it's just the stepping stone into the PM world.

[@txhondaguy]

@@InfluentialPMO thank you for your reply. I applied to some jobs today. We'll see what happens, take care

[@jeong-minhwang5909]

Hello! I am currently a junior majoring in Literary Journalism. Recently, I found an interest is Project Management but I do not know where to start especially because I am at the end of my undergrad and would soon center "the real world" ha ha. I also, am not sure if this field is right for me. How do you know? And what do you recommend I do to get started? Thank you so much!!

[@InfluentialPMO]

Hi, a move into project management could be very rewarding. I've made a playlist of videos that discuss project management careers for people thinking about moving into the profession - it may be useful to you to review them: kzbin.info/aero/PLY8XTBC12Nhssx_4cS4nE6VrV3yPRaYhm&si=18A1qZqiCfWSrarm If you decide it is a career that interests you, my course - Find Your Next - Or First - Project Management Job - is currently enrolling for the January 2024 intake. If you're interested, you can get the full details of the course here: geni.us/FindYourNextPMJob

[@sswan9689]

I have a question, so can someone who hasn't been at a company or have too much work experience be a project manager? It seems like the company would hire within and make a person with experience a project manager. I ask only because my daughter is applying for project manager positions, but she doesn't have that much experience. She did pass the project manager certification test, but I told her she might have to start as an administrator assistant or something just to get the experience and learn the lingo of the company before starting right away as a project manager. Did I tell her wrong, or do companies hire inexperienced project managers and train them? Thank you.

[@InfluentialPMO]

I think you gave your daughter some very good advice there. I’d just add that there are a few other opportunities, such as getting a role that’s not directly related to project management but offering to work on projects and demonstrate an interest/capability to the in-house project teams. This video may help: kzbin.info/www/bejne/q4Tdg2ODeLSLq6ssi=P6BJSJ9EMh8bkMhH

[@sswan9689]

@@InfluentialPMO Thank you for your help..I will pass this along to her.

[@vimalraj6247]

Hi , Is IT Project Manager is disappearing from Current Market?? because most company adopting the Agile/Hybrid Methods. Please do the videos' about it. Thanks

[@InfluentialPMO]

Interesting idea... I may know the right person to ask. Keep watching, I hope to address this soon.

[@vimalraj6247]

@@InfluentialPMO thankyou sir

[@vadimchernenko1150]

Hi. Can you recommend any courses for PM in UK? I`m have education Civil Engineer and have experience near 15 years in Ukraine. Last 5 years I'm have work PM and responsible for all building project our campany. I have diploma Constraction Project Manager

[@InfluentialPMO]

I typically recommend PRINCE2 as it worked for me. But I'd say the experience you possess would be worth more than the certificate.

[@global_food_slut]

is it ok if I show this video in my class? please send me a note.

[@InfluentialPMO]

Sure, no problem. Thanks for checking 👍

[@kryptoclicks]

i am thinking about being a P

[@InfluentialPMO]

Wonderful! Best wishes!

[@kryptoclicks]

@@InfluentialPMO thank you

[@GlobalMechanix]

Just noting this is a typical IT PMO POV. Bringing about socio-environmental change involves going way beyond your own organisation and shows how other organisations work together to create something they where not able to do before.

[@EchoTangoSuitcase]

"Project Manager" is such a broad term, covers so much territory, that it's almost useless as a term/title. It also tends to get conflated with a lot of other titles that might or might not have either "Project" or "Management" in them. That is not a criticism of YOU, by the way; nor it is a criticism of your video. If anything, it's a criticism of laziness in terminology on the part of an entire industry. People don't even bother to distinguish between PM roles that build physical things and ones that build virtual things. I remember being asked some time ago about titles and how I felt about them as relates to roles I would consider. My response was: "𝘐 𝘥𝘰𝘯'𝘵 𝘤𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘪𝘧 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘤𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘮𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘊𝘩𝘪𝘦𝘧 𝘊𝘰𝘰𝘬 & 𝘉𝘰𝘵𝘵𝘭𝘦 𝘞𝘢𝘴𝘩𝘦𝘳. 𝘐𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘬 𝘪𝘴 𝘧𝘶𝘯 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘧𝘶𝘭𝘧𝘪𝘭𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘨, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘱𝘢𝘺𝘤𝘩𝘦𝘤𝘬𝘴 𝘥𝘰𝘯'𝘵 𝘣𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘤𝘦, 𝘸𝘦'𝘳𝘦 𝘨𝘰𝘰𝘥." If I were to give a simple description about what a PM is, I would say that a PM is the Conductor of the Orchestra. Not the musician, not the composer, not the owner of the concert hall. The PM is the person responsible for ensuring that the people in the audience are happy. If there was one piece of advice I would give to anyone who does this for a living, I would say it comes down to this: "𝐓𝐨 𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐄𝐧𝐝?" It's very easy to forget the WHY of a project, what the end goal is. The raison d'etre. But that's the one thing you can never lose sight of, because it is your guidepost, the one thing that keeps you on track. It is the sine qua non of everything you do. Forget your "WHY" at your peril. This is true whether you are running a single construction project or are the CEO of a multi-billion dollar corporation. EDITED TO ADD: Advice #2: Carry one of those little pocket notebooks with you. AT ALL TIMES. Trust me on this. You will thank me later. 😁