A Day in Life

                                              CIS 5675:  Project Management

                                         dxm92680@ucmo.edu

                                                Deepthi Mareneni

                                                    Homework#1

                                                       700629268

A DAY IN THE LIFE:

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Irrespective of any industry, Project manager is referred as captain of the ship. This itself tells that Project manager should be a leader and unique .In this Context, Rachel exhibited many leadership qualities, by which we can say that she does justice to her role. She has a great vision of successfully fulfilling her tasks on time. The qualities described in the given context explain how well Rachel Plans her day. Her early arrival to office shows us the bossy nature which is very important for a project manager. She utilizes the time in a effective way and has a pre –plan structure so that she can save quality time and assign works to her project team members on time. Her meet with Neil, who is her fellow project manager, shows her nature of socializing which is an added quality for a project manager. In addition to that, it also develops a friendly atmosphere in the office by which exchanging views, opinions between different project managers is possible. Being a Project Manager, work place may vary like client’s site or vendor’s site they must be flexible enough to work at different places and get settle up to start work as early as they reach the office. Rachel settle up in 10 minutes which is very good time to start. Communication is an important aspect in our daily life for exchanging information. Being a project manager many communicate her on mobile or mails so it’s very important to go through them and reply them back so that for some of them her reply is only source to start their work for that day.

Project Manager must always be available to her co workers as she is the one who drives the solutions for any issues. Her quality of not attending any calls at the client’s site tells us that how effectively and dedicated towards her work and it shows how well she can prioritize her different works so that there will not be any conflict of completing tasks. Then as she comes back to her work place morning she replies back to all her voice mails and mails. The numbers mentioned in the information tells us how each missed call or messages are considered. The way she prepares To-do-list shows her perfect and professional approach to work daily. This systematic approach enables her to sort out the work easy. Her main role for her designation comes into picture, where she reviews the reports of project. A Perfect manager is one who takes input from their above officials, obey them and guide her below team members. The way she responds to her boss shows how passive she is and how much committed is she to the work. In addition to this, the way she handles pressure is an added quality which mitigates the employees stress and works with more enthusiasm. Her reaction to issue of Johnson joining other organization tells her commitment and concern to her organization. She relaxes for couple of minutes, which is effective utilization of time so that she can work rest of the day with same enthusiasm as in the morning. Rachel continuously checks the flow of work from purchasing agent, clients, developing department, marketing department which is an important quality of project managers called as multitasking and acts as a bridge between all the departments to work effectively.