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Project Management Roles and Responsibilities - Cooking a Meal

***** are clearly defined undertakings that have a completion timeline/deadline ***** are constrained by the amount of budget available as well as ***** number ***** resources allocated. Whether formal or informal, or small, medium or large projects, the same care, due diligence and methodology implementation should and must be done to ensure successful ***** and/***** clearly defined premature closeout. Some people may not know it but in their day*****to-day lives, ***** are ubiquitous. Going by the Project ***** Life Cycle of the ***** Management Institute (PMI), ***** embark on initiating processes, planning *****, executing processes, m*****itoring and controlling processes, ***** closing processes (PMI, 2004) in their daily activities. Thus, preparing coffee in the morning is a project *****cause the activity ***** initiated and planned ***** "defining ***** need and want for coffee ***** will brew it upon waking up in the morning." The actual act of ********** the coffee, putting it in a mug and adding cream ***** sugar is execution part. Ensuring that there is enough coffee, sugar and ***** to make the coffee and that the ***** maker is working is part of the mon*****oring and controlling aspect. Once the coffee ***** consumed and satisfaction from drinking it is met then these are the close out procedures.

Cooking a meal, whether ***** two to ***** thousand ***** a ***** we all are familiar with. Like any other project, a WBS or w*****k bre*****kdown structure must be created "to define and decompose the project into *****er, more manageable pieces (Mulcahy, 2006). There are also phases to projects and for the "Cooking a Me*****l Project," ***** phase presented is managing the kitchen from preparing "everything" before ***** actual cooking up to post-cooking cleanup. Prior to embarking on the project, there is a requirement to form the ***** team ***** assign corresponding roles and responsibilities. For every project, the "head honcho" is the ***** manager and as a PM, the following roles ***** responsibilities *****re defined (*****, 2004)

Effect communication to ensure smooth exchange of information;

Influence the organization to "get things done";

Lead the project team by developing a vision ********** strategy;

***** people to achieve vision and strategy, and energize them ***** achieve high levels of performance and to overcome barriers to change;

Negotiate ***** manage conflicts by conferring with *****s to come to terms or reach an agreement; and Solve problems by defining, identifying alternatives, analyzing ***** deciding on course ***** action ***** the problem.

Aside ***** the ***** *****r, the project team and its members ***** their own ***** and responsibilities (Mulcahy, 2006):

********** the project management process;

Know what their role is in each project management *****

Make sure they have clear assignments of w*****k;

Push back when they feel the need; and Be the technical experts by providing technical advice to the PM.

***** roles and responsibilities ***** been assigned ***** there is a cle*****r project charter, the "Cooking a Meal Project" can proceed and incorporating