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Defining Roles for IT Governance (Part 2)
George Jucan is an experienced Project Manager Professional (PMP) with 20 years of technical and management experience in complex environments, both in public and private sector. He is well known in the project management community as a successful IT project management consultant, speaker at public events, trainer and author of project management articles.
A Project Manager is defined as "the person assigned by the performing organization to achieve the project objectives" (PMBOK Guide Third Edition). However, a project can be from very simple (short duration, small team, low budget) up to highly complex, multi-year multi-million dollars, involving hundreds of participants. It is obvious that the skills and qualifications required to manage projects from such a wide range are quite different.
From a technical specialist with some abilities to organize others up to the leader able to achieve results despite all obstacles, any of them could be assigned to achieve the project objectives for different type of projects. Their autonomy could also vary from tight supervision to quasi-independence, or even having aids for certain activities.
The human brain needs to classify information to be able to process it instantaneously. Babies classify everything they eat as "food". As long as life sustenance is the only criteria, "food" is all we need to know. But when the baby grows and the needs are more refined, the "food" becomes "meats", "vegetables", "fruits" and so on. And the adults go even further, introducing special classifications such as low-carbs, low-fat, low-sugar, etc.
Organizations apply the same mechanism (they are created by humans, aren't they?). As long as they only need to satisfy a primary need, any person …
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