I am on my way to submit a proposal on project management organization development to the Management. In my view, Project Managers have been needed to manage our projects that showed a positive rise in terms of numbers and complexity. So far, we only assigned Project Coordinator to lead project delivery. A PC sometimes is involved in technical areas. That leads PC to busy to do technical things and lack of time to take the managerial function.
A Project Manager is needed to hold all of project related issues in his own hand and communicate closely with stakeholders. Everything from A to Z of the project is expected to be his knowledge. That will be different from a project coordinator that have limited authority and responsibility to the project. In some cases, a project coordinator that on paper is labeled by project manager to show that the project is treated with a professional conducts, are lack of pride in front of customers. They said that they were project manager but they did a technical things themselves.
This organization has to move forward and develop a career path in project management to show the engineers that there are many career alternatives to choose.
Due to my organization size, I need only two or three project managers that in my opinion will be capable to handle 30 to 60 projects a year. PMs will be supported by a Program Management Administration Staff and Technical Documentation Staffs.
Our PM Career Path (A Glance)
