Lessons for an Accidental Profession

Lessons for an Accidental Profession
Summary
Projects and project management are future of global business. Increasingly technically complex products and processes, vastly shortened time to market windows, and the need for cross-functional expertise make project management an important and powerful tool in the hands of organization. Businesses regularly use project management to accomplish unique outcomes with limited resources under critical time constraints. Project management is the powerful tool for the organization to achieve its goals. This article is about enhancing the sills of the project manager since the improvement of project management has been discussed so many times. The qualities in a leader we see is the problem solving, visional, motivational, ethical etc. Project manager is the one who manages the project and it can be done by providing full means, support and confidence for their team. The project managers have a little authority and have the ability to operate the hierarchy different from that of traditional one. They might be bosses but not in a complete way, they can give the directions but cannot provide incentives or rewards instead of that they can only influence the teams. Because of such limitations the project management is termed as accidental profession. The two reasons for it are: project managers are selected and trained by formal and systematic programs. Secondly, many of the individuals grow up with a dream to be a project manager without defining this path. Novice managers are given the projects to provide complete data about completion work, budget, and the set of performances and those who done it on time are successful and those who don’t are failing. This creates among project manager the fear of losing the job and that’s why with pressure they aren’t able to perform their task successfully. Many companies do the same mistake again and again, instead of providing training and motivating the managers skills. The problems