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| Domain | Definition |
Occupations | Plans, directs, and coordinates activities of designated project to ensure that goals or objectives of project are accomplished within prescribed time frame and funding parameters: Reviews project proposal or plan to determine time frame, funding limitations, procedures for accomplishing project, staffing requirements, and allotment of available resources to various phases of project. Establishes work plan and staffing for each phase of project, and arranges for recruitment or assignment of project personnel. Confers with project staff to outline workplan and to assign duties, responsibilities, and scope of authority. Directs and coordinates activities of project personnel to ensure project progresses on schedule and within prescribed budget. Reviews status reports prepared by project personnel and modifies schedules or plans as required. Prepares project reports for management, client, or others. Confers with project personnel to provide technical advice and to resolve problems. May coordinate project activities with activities of government regulatory or other governmental agencies. See PROJECT ENGINEER (profess. & kin.) 019.167-014 for engineering projects. (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
The project manager must posess a combination of skills including an ability to ask penetrating questions, detect unstated assumptions, resolve interpersonal conflicts as well as more systematic management skills.
Key amongst his/her duties is the recognition that risk directly impacts the likelihood of success and that this risk must be both formally and informally measured throughout the lifetime of the project.
Risk arises primarily from uncertainty and the succesful project manager is the one who focuses upon this as the main concern. Most of the issues that impact a project arise in one way or another from risk. A good project manager can reduce risk significantly, often by adhering to a policy of open communication, ensuring that every significant particiapnt has an opportunity to express opinions and concerns.
It follows from the above that a project manager is one who is responsible for making decisions both small and large, in such a way that risk is controlled and uncertainty minimised. Every decision taken by the project manager should be taken in such a way that it directly benefits the project.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Project manager."
Crosswords: PROJECT MANAGER |
| Specialty definitions using "PROJECT MANAGER": Ada 95 ♦ EOS PROJECT, EOS PROJECT MANAGER. (references) |
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 | Vincent Cheramie, monitoring manager, and Brian Kendrick, project manager at Mobile Canal, Point Au Fer Island. View from east to west. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center. |  | David Burkholder, project manager, Lake Chapeau. The image is taken at Point Au Fer from west to east at the breach area. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center. |
 | In the foreground, John Iliff, the NOAA project manager for the restoration at Mona Island prepares to dive. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center. |  | Louisiana DNR project manager inspecting rock dike. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center. |
 | John Hussey, TIROS-N Ground System Project Manager, standing below 36-ft (11-meter) antenna. This was the primary communications terminal for all incoming TIROS-N data at the Suitland processing facility. Credit: NOAA in Space. |  | Southeast Missouri Farms. Project manager talking over problem with client. La Forge project, Missouri. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Negro clients and wives listening to speech of project manager, Southeast Missouri Farms. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Farmer receiving check from or giving check to project manager. Falls City Farmsteads, Nebraska. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Project manager and workmen examine a diseased tree. Pine Ridge, Nebraska. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Members of sugar refinery cooperative being addressed by project manager. Central Lafayette, Puerto Rico. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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Business | Project will increase production at the existing Ruwais refinery from 135,000 bpd to 270,000 bpd and increase production of gasoline, naphtha, LPG, DP Kero, Jet Fuel, and Gas Oils. Foster Wheeler is Project Manager (FEED), Flour Daniel is Consultant, and Snamprogetti is Main Contractor. (references) | |
Economic History | Senegal | For further information on AFDB projects, U.S. companies may contact Ms. Barbara White, Project Manager AFDB, Office of Finance, U.S. Department of Commerce, Washington, DC 20230. (references) |
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| Language | Translations for "PROJECT MANAGER"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | プロペラ船 (air propeller boat, professional wrestling, proletarian, proletariat, promenade, Prometheus, promethium, prominence, promote, promoter, promotion, promotion video, proportion, proposal). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | プロマネ . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ojectpray anagermay руководитель проекта (projectmanager). (various references) jefe de obras. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
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| Words within the letters "a-a-c-e-e-g-j-m-n-o-p-r-r-t" | |
-3 letters: megaproject, pomegranate. | |
-5 letters: arrogance, carpenter, carrageen, comanager, copartner, generator, geomancer, macerator, mercaptan, parameter, parentage, patronage, pentagram, porterage, precentor, procreant, procreate, reportage, treponema. | |
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