Role of Project Manager

Core Outcomes

  1. First Among Equals: Captain of the G6 team
  2. Commitment Setting: Ensure the DU Commitments are established, agreed upon by the team members and they abide by it.
  3. Conflict Management: Ensuring all conflicts and disputes inside the team are resolved early and effectively.
  4. Team Alignment: Ensuring all G6 members have an integrated, consistent view of the project
  5. Team Culture: Promote culture of collaboration, teamwork, open coordination & coordination amongst team members
  6. Open communication: Ensuring communication protocols are in place
  7. Well In Time : Planning / clearances / decision making well in time
  8. Transitioning: Enabling the G6 to transit to a self-organizing mode

Key Practices

  1. Raising questions that challenge the unstated assumptions / old ways of doing things (blue & red spaces, Dare To Succeed)
  2. Celebrating success / supporting people when there is a set back

Should Do

  1. Be top of all admin and project management tasks – getting approvals (to be scoped) from senior management, tracking budget, costs, project schedule, stakeholder management, document approval, etc.
  2. Monitor the progress of the project via inputs from planning and take corrective action
  3. Integrating & synthesizing inputs from different G6 members and ensuring shared understanding – plan updates, outcomes, etc.
  4. Raise questions that trigger new thinking (if others are not doing so) – identifying blue and red spaces, Dare To Succeed targets
  5. Interact with senior management updating them of the status of the project and resolving escalated issues
  6. Analysis of project risk and mitigation plans.
  7. Update senior management regularly

Should not do

  1. Impose one’s decisions / opinions on CU / kitchen activities of others
  2. Keep issues unaddressed or festering for long

G6 Interface

  1. DU Commitment Map is prepared and followed
  2. Resolving when there is a conflict between team members
  3. Build trust in the G6