I am new to the role of Project Manager, and am working to develop ?standard? PM Practices within my Department. The question arose as to which projects warrant a full-time PM? I have some ideas on this ? in theory, but would really appreciate any practical / real-life input I could get on this. Should it be based on certain quantifiers such as money/budget, head-count, project life-span (i.e. time)? And if so, what are the values of those quantifiers?
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The reality is that most project managers in "project managed organisations" undertake a number of project simultaneously. Having said that I have worked in a situation where I was contracted to manage just one initiative.
The issues behind 'single focus or multiple projects' are complex and often highly organisation-specific, but they include
Scope and scale of project Effort required to manage the project Availability of Project Managers Is the remainder of the team allocated full time Risk and sensitivity of project Profile of project
In my experience these are all really judged in a qualitative manner. It isn't possible to establish simple metrics for this, rather it is a matter of corporate judgement based around the totality of the above factors.
Once you've worked out a project charter/plan and you can confirm the commitment of time required from a project manager (based largely on those criteria identified in the earlier post) it becomes quite simple. Anything over an 80% commitment in time will require the appointment of a dedicated PM.
