What Did You Do Today?
Posted: Fri 06 Sep 2013 8:59 am
Hi All
Strange question possibly?
My employers and colleagues all seem to have different ideas of what PM's should do as part of their role and the lines have become well and truly blurred. We don't have any 'bought in' project managers where I work, we just ask engineers to manage projects and we've been figuring it out ourselves.
I'm curious to what seasoned PM's actually do day to day and I think this may be useful to others to help develop role and responsibility definitions across the team.
It depends on whether PM is our only role, for example I still have engineering responsibilities but I find that with most PM / Engineers that engineering takes up 95% of their time and the PM stuff is left behind. This makes it difficult to distinguish between PM and team activities.
Any thoughts?
Thanks
Nick
Strange question possibly?
My employers and colleagues all seem to have different ideas of what PM's should do as part of their role and the lines have become well and truly blurred. We don't have any 'bought in' project managers where I work, we just ask engineers to manage projects and we've been figuring it out ourselves.
I'm curious to what seasoned PM's actually do day to day and I think this may be useful to others to help develop role and responsibility definitions across the team.
It depends on whether PM is our only role, for example I still have engineering responsibilities but I find that with most PM / Engineers that engineering takes up 95% of their time and the PM stuff is left behind. This makes it difficult to distinguish between PM and team activities.
Any thoughts?
Thanks
Nick