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A match made in heaven Try employing a project management accountant to support the project manager, and watch the work and the cash flow improve.
I n supporting many of the firms that we work with, we find varying models of how project managers are either effectively utilized or how they are not.
❚ ❚ Provide leadership and morale to keep the team happy, engaged, and productive ❚ ❚ Drive performance to meet a dynamic landscape when it comes to changes the client makes, issues that the team uncovers, and management of the schedule ❚ ❚ Provide the firm’s senior management with status See TED MAZIEJKA, page 12 “One of the most successful models that we have seen is the linking of an effective project manager with an equally effective project management accountant.”
Project managers have the daunting task of providing the following to the clients, most of the time all at once: ❚ ❚ Communicate and delineate expectations clearly to the client ❚ ❚ Ensure that the team is aware of what the client feels would be success on the project ❚ ❚ Ensure that whatever will keep the client up at night is covered ❚ ❚ Ensure that whatever risk issues the client has illu- minated are known to the team ❚ ❚ Manage the internal and external team members ❚ ❚ Resource plan and maintain the team’s contract hours
Ted Maziejka
THE ZWEIG LETTER May 1, 2017, ISSUE 1198
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