《Fundamentals of Project Management 4th Edition》读书笔记 第二章 项目经理的角色
Fundamentals of Project Management 4thEdition
CHAPTER 2 The Role of the Project Manager
项目经理的角色
由于往往项目经理是由技术人员选拔上来的，所以项目经理被人们视为技术性岗位，其实这是个谬误。
Because many project managers arrive attheir position as a natural progression from their jobs as engineers,programmers, scientists, and other kinds of jobs, both they and their bossessee the job as a technical job. This simply isn’t true.
项目经理的首要责任就是保持项目在计划时间、预算和范围内，以争取的绩效水平，完成项目工作。而不是亲自去从事技术性工作。
If you remember that every project producesa product, service, or result, then there is a technical aspect to the job.However, it is a question of who is responsible for what, and project managerswho must manage the project and handle technical issues are set up to fail fromthe beginning. The primary responsibility of the project manager is to ensurethat all work is completed on time, within budget and scope, and at the correctperformance level. That is, she must see that the PCTS targets are met. Herprimary role is to manage the project, not do the work!
In fact, one of the biggest traps forproject managers is to be what is euphemistically called a working projectmanager. This means that the project manager is indeed responsible forperforming technical work, in addition to managing the job. The problem withthis is that when there is a conflict between managing and doing work—and therealways is such a conflict—the work will take priority and the managing will beneglected.
项目经理的首要技巧是人际技巧。如何让组员去做该做的事，如何从组织获取支持，如何获取到必须的资源。
The first skills that a project managerneeds are people skills.
Many project managers who have strong technicalbackgrounds and it difficult to deal with people effectively. They are “thingsoriented,” not people oriented, and some will even go so far as to say thatthey hate this aspect of the job.
由于PM有较少的职权，所以要保证组员从项目中有他们想要的东西。
Since you have very little authority anyway,consider the job to ensure that everyone in the project team has what they needto do their job well.