Role of project management:
1. Planning
This involves laying down the framework for the development of a project or part of it. It
includes specific tasks, which include forecasting, establishing objectives, devising strategies,
developing policies and setting goals.
2.Monitoring and Control
It aims an ensuring actual results are consistent with planned results. Monitoring involves
assessing the progress of the project to determine if there are any differences between
actual and planned results. The control function on the other hand ensures that the project
is progressing as planned and the project team is performing better than planned.
3.Organization
This ensures that the various elements involved in a project i.e. staff, management, and
infrastructure are working together in harmony and that proper infrastructure is in place to
ensure the same.
4.Staffing
This function is centered on Human Resource Management (HRM), which involves
looking into wages, hiring and firing procedures, training of staff, provision of a right
environment, etc
5.Directing
This involves the process of motivation, leading, guiding, etc, which positively influence
subordinates.
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