Project Roles and Responsibilities

Hopefully, you can use this list to educate your team members about the various roles on a project team. Executive Steering Committee Sets the strategic vision and objectives for a given program or project. The team leads efforts to build consensus through the organization to support the project or program’s objectives. Governance Board Formal team of executives from across the organization that ensure projects will meet/are meeting enterprise goals. Project Sponsor Provides clarity of the project vision, and directs the activities of the project...

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Project Requirements and the WBS

The project manager is responsible for controlling a project's requirements. To start the process of managing requirements the project manager works with the team to create a Work Breakdown Structure (WBS). A couple of things to keep in mind regarding a WBS are: 1. A WBS should identify the level tasks to be completed, and relate to the project’s deliverables. 2. The customer(s), project sponsor, and stakeholders are actively involved in creating the WBS. 3. The WBS helps avoid future "scope creep". As you can see the WBS is an important project...

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