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⌈ Secret Post #3011 ⌋

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(Transformers: War for Cybertron)

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[iZombie]

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[Amazingphil]

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[How to get away with murder/Scandal]

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[Russell Brand]

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[Hand of Fate]

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[Homestuck, The Nostalgia Critic, Channel Awesome]

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(An American Tail)

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[Mark Steel]

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[Once Upon a Time]

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[X-Files, The Lone Gunmen]

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[Divergent series]

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[One Piece]

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[Criminal Minds: Derek Morgan]

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[Bad Suns: Salt music video]

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[Accuracy of Death/Sweet Rain/Shinigami no seido]

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[Steven Universe]

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[One Piece]

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what actually is project management, in concrete terms, when it comes to businesses?

The person that takes the shit if anyone under then fucks up during the process.

(Or in less facetious terms, the one with the overall responsibility for whatever the project outcome entails, be it delivery of product, design, delegation of tasks to those working for them etc. etc. etc.)

It is the person who works out what needs to be done, what contractors need to be employed, how much it will cost, what the timescale (realistically) will be, and makes a plan that shows how all of those come together. They also have to deal on the fly with anything unexpected, like say you've booked a contractor upon whose clompted work three other contractors depend and the 1st guy is supposed to come on tuesday so the other guys can come in on wednesday and the 1st guy cancels on monday evening; the contractor has to choose to either keep on timescale and blow the budget by hiring an emergency guy at a higher rate, or blow the timescale and push the other contractors back. Stuff like that.

The project manager has to take the blame for the choices made, and be a shit-umbrella for the guys working below them.

Yeah, if a project manager has done a good job in the planning stage, they can do very little during the active stage beyond just checking up on progress. If they screw up, or are just unlucky, they'll be onsite every day screaming at people and running around firefighting small problems.

Yeah, mostly this. Some of the terminology changes depending on the industry but that's the basic concept.

This basically. Though I'd like to add that it's a lot more than it sounds since, as soon as the shit hits the fan, the PM has to get in their and figure out a solution...and, depending on the project, that can mean 50+ hours a week.

*creeps in late*

Project management is the end-to-end process of initiation, following through and ending/passing over a project. It includes canvassing stakeholders, communication, meetings, communication, planning, plans ruined and more planning, deadlines, targets throughout the process, finance tracking, report writing, control groups possible, a decided end target (what do you want as a result? how can you do this? how can you measure this? when does it leave your hands? at what point does your responsibility end and begin? how long does the project go for? add in flexible time, who's a stakeholder? who's a concerned person? who's a consult? what rules must you abide by, who do you need to speak to to get certain approvals, what is the sign off procedure, do you need to speak to the finance team, are their strict rules, what are the financial constraints? what are the ethical constraints? what is the justificaiton - write down the justification, reword it depending on the stakeholder you have to convince, reword it depending on the audience, does it have multiple results, explain how it is beneficial and good for X, KEEP CONSULTING THROUGH OUT THE PROCESS, provide feedback and updates, ask advice, get advice, make sure to have the rough process outlined from end to end and FOR THE LOVE OF GOD when the project ends REVIEW IT to see what worked and didn't work - and if its an appropriate project, REVIEW IT AGAIN IN X TIME PERIOD for improvements/still working

>at what point does your responsibility end and begin?

This is mostly about accountability. It is very fucking important from the start to draw the line on where your accountability/influence ends

Also you have reminded me to find my missing PM folder thanks for that

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