The Role of the Project Manager in Project Completion and Process Improvement.

Project Completion The Project Manager has to make sure that certain activities are attended to before the project can be closed. Some of these are simple, mechanistic and, potentially, automatic but they will require attention at a time when the environment is often filled with considerable human angst. The actions that will require attention coming up to termination are: 1. That there are incentives for the project to be finished rather than prolonged. 2. That all mandated …

…management who are rarely stimulated to make changes by influences from below. More recently there has been a trend toward industry benchmarking as a way to improve performance. This provides for players from one company to investigate and understand the operating philosophies and systems of their competitors and equivalents. As long as the initiatives are seen as being industry wide, and are reciprocal, they are very well received and are a positive agent of change.