What is a project manager?

Very nice as PMO Director your content are spot on! Best wishes

Your video is a gem, the role is very well explained and you encompass trough your explanation different aspects which are crucial to really understand what a project manager is. So thank you 😊

Hi. Can you recommend any courses for PM in UK? I`m have education Civil Engineer and have experience near 15 years in Ukraine. Last 5 years I'm have work PM and responsible for all building project our campany.
I have diploma Constraction Project Manager

is it ok if I show this video in my class? please send me a note.

Some organisation requires a PM role to consist more scope like as BA and Product. Given that constant change in working environment, would say now PM role is not like it used to be with pure managing a project without going technical and understanding of it both front end, middle office and backend. Met countless of business PM or ITPM that is not technical but just purely managing a project by doing budgeting, managing timeline and progress analysis. lastly most of them don’t get selected for the next project. A lot of company nowadays prefer to have sort of like a hybrid project manager role.

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I have a degree in accounting. Been in it for a few years. Wanted to switch to project management. I don't have leadership experience but I know I can do it. What key words in a job search should I look for?

Hi ,
Is IT Project Manager is disappearing from Current Market?? because most company adopting the Agile/Hybrid Methods. Please do the videos' about it.
Thanks

As a construction project manager I describe my job as juggling chain saws while riding a bike on a tight rope

Project Manager is Challenge and Change Manager? Might be?

"Project Manager" is such a broad term, covers so much territory, that it's almost useless as a term/title. It also tends to get conflated with a lot of other titles that might or might not have either "Project" or "Management" in them.

That is not a criticism of YOU, by the way; nor it is a criticism of your video. If anything, it's a criticism of laziness in terminology on the part of an entire industry. People don't even bother to distinguish between PM roles that build physical things and ones that build virtual things.

I remember being asked some time ago about titles and how I felt about them as relates to roles I would consider. My response was: "𝘐 𝘥𝘰𝘯'𝘵 𝘤𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘪𝘧 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘤𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘮𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘊𝘩𝘪𝘦𝘧 𝘊𝘰𝘰𝘬 & 𝘉𝘰𝘵𝘵𝘭𝘦 𝘞𝘢𝘴𝘩𝘦𝘳. 𝘐𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘬 𝘪𝘴 𝘧𝘶𝘯 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘧𝘶𝘭𝘧𝘪𝘭𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘨, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘱𝘢𝘺𝘤𝘩𝘦𝘤𝘬𝘴 𝘥𝘰𝘯'𝘵 𝘣𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘤𝘦, 𝘸𝘦'𝘳𝘦 𝘨𝘰𝘰𝘥."

If I were to give a simple description about what a PM is, I would say that a PM is the Conductor of the Orchestra. Not the musician, not the composer, not the owner of the concert hall. The PM is the person responsible for ensuring that the people in the audience are happy.

If there was one piece of advice I would give to anyone who does this for a living, I would say it comes down to this: "𝐓𝐨 𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐄𝐧𝐝?"

It's very easy to forget the WHY of a project, what the end goal is. The raison d'etre.

But that's the one thing you can never lose sight of, because it is your guidepost, the one thing that keeps you on track. It is the sine qua non of everything you do. Forget your "WHY" at your peril. This is true whether you are running a single construction project or are the CEO of a multi-billion dollar corporation.

EDITED TO ADD:
Advice #2: Carry one of those little pocket notebooks with you. AT ALL TIMES. Trust me on this. You will thank me later. 😁

Hello. Thank you for your videos. Im currently considering a career in PM. I have found a course online in Prince2. It will give me foundation and practitioner certs once completed and passed. Have you had any experience in online courses or do you have any reccomendations? Thank you.

Really love your videos and also help me a lot in my day-to-day work !!

I like this. My view is we should never let anyone put any limits on our role. Because, sooner or later, we'll find ourselves at that boundary, needing to take one more step to get the job done.

I am so thankful for this. I work in a small organisation in Indonesia.
Just exactly yesterday, I went to my director's and ask what I should do. I dont feel I accomplish anything being a project manager of almost a year already. I dont know what to do and caught up in doing small things that I dont need to focus on. Public speaking and leading meeting are some of my challenges. I am thinking about resigning cause I dont give my best here. I am giving myself a month to change bit by bit. I watch your videos religiously and hope I can do this job properly.

Absolutely love the 'Junior' definitions of a project manager🙂