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Project Management - what does CM have to do with it?
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Bob Aiello raiello@acm.org
Bob Aiello - May 2003
Project Management can mean a lot of different things to software development professionals. For many it is the discipline of delivering the project on time and according to specification. For senior business managers it is controlling the cost of developing business systems while maximizing the return on investment. Often it is the project manager who must communicate what is being done and how much it will cost to non-technical business experts. As a veteran of many software development efforts, I have begun to feel that the project manager is the person who juggles the many (constantly changing) variables and unknowns while trying to keep the team on track to deliver something that management will accept as a deliverable for the overspent budget (six months to a year later than promised).
Project Management can mean a lot of different things to software development professionals. For many it is the discipline of delivering the project on time and according to specification. For senior business managers it is controlling the cost of developing business systems while maximizing the return on investment. Often it is the project manager who must communicate what is being done and how much it will cost to non-technical business experts. As a veteran of many software development efforts, I have begun to feel that the project manager is the person who juggles the many (constantly changing) variables and unknowns while trying to keep the team on track to deliver something that management will accept as a deliverable for the overspent budget (six months to a year later than promised).
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