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How to manage your project manager

The Project Manager is the governance team’s key to success in relation to the project. They are running the project, not you. You need to be able to rely on them and they need to be able to rely on you. 

How you manage your project manager is, therefore, key to your and your project’s success.

This Guide provides Project Sponsors with the bases and knowledge to effectively select and then manage their project manager - and when to replace them!
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If, as Sponsor, you are uncomfortable with your project manager (or vice versa) this is a recipe for disaster. The relationship between the project manager and their Sponsor is vital and needs to be managed. 

This Guide takes you through the process of identifying what you need and then selecting the right person for the job.

It also covers

  • how to set them up for success
  • what to do if the relationship breaks down
  • how to evaluate their performance on relevant criteria.

Some project managers are ‘a law unto themselves’ and need strong governance; others just need all of the support they can get. Whereas most project managers will perform ‘OK’, they can perform better with effective governance support.

This Guide tells you what they need and how to provide it to increase both of your likelihoods of success.

How to manage your project manager

  1. Understanding the nature of the project manager role
  2. Understanding the different project manager roles
  3. The end-to-end project manage selection and management process
  4. How to identify your project’s dimensions and characteristics
  5. How to assess a project manager’s skills, aptitudes and attributes
  6. How to induct your project manager
  7. How to manage your project manager
  8. How to meet (legitimate) project manager expectations
  9. How to evaluate your project manager’s performance
  • Project Sponsors - as the project manager should be reporting directly to them
  • Governance Teams - to understand the role and nature of the project manager and how they can be made more effective
  • PPMOs - to help ensure the governance team supports the project manager
  • Project Practitioners - to understand how they should be governed and what support they should reasonably expect
  • Enables you to match your project manager’s skills and attributes to your project’s size, scale and nature to get the ‘right person for the job’
  • Enables you to evaluate your potential project managers - will they fit the project and work well with you?
  • Gives you a game plan for inducting your project manager to ensure their equipped to succeed
  • Ensures you actively manage your project manager in alignment with their performance and know what to do if things go bad
  • Enables you to meet known and understood expectations of you from your project manager
  • Enables you to rate your project manager’s performance on a standard basis that is understood by all parties.