Project planner is a role in project management. There is certain diversity in understanding of what project planner roles and responsibilities are, and who should undertake them. Basically, the duties of the planner role are assumed by project managers and their assistants who undertake a number of essential functions related to composing the project plan to make it feasible, accurate and clear. The main set of responsibilities includes the following ones:
- Composing WBS (planning a map of project activities);
- Estimating and allocating project’s resources (time, costs, employees, technology);
- Planning project’s quality requirements and objectives;
- Planning project’s organization (team’s structure, seniority and working interrelations);
- Planning project’s documents and deliverables;
Each of project manager’s assistants can be assigned to his own part of this work (while the whole process is supervised and coordinated by the PM). Each of these functions needs attention of a person who is properly educated, qualified and was provided with a proper training. All these duties mean sets of smaller tasks and activities that are necessary to deliver results of higher levels, and all of them can be managed with a help of software represented below:
VIP Task Manager is software for task and time management. It provides you with sharable interface modes (Task List, Task Tree and Calendar) that can be used by project planners and trackers for analyzing progress over the working plans in order to identify evolution or defections.
To work as a project planner – do the following:
- start your workforce management software;
- plan and schedule your tasks in terms of time, costs, etc;
- control and guide the project performance;
- check and compare if your project meets the plan;
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