Typical Duties of Project and Program

Managers

Project and program managers are responsible for creating and managing the content of projects and programs. The capabilities of project and program managers are nearly identical. Your typical duties include the following:

•Creating and editing the project or program

•Overriding user profiles

•Managing team members and roles

•Creating, editing, and managing documents and folders

•Creating, editing, and managing activities, deliverables, resources, and action items

•Limiting edit privileges for all action items

•Managing document templates

•Managing preferences

•Importing and exporting information

•Undoing a user checkout

•Viewing and managing access control rules for objects

•Managing utilities

The following sections describe some of the duties in more detail.

Creating and Editing Projects and Programs

When you create a project or program, you can choose the project or program template on which the project or program is based, define the key project or program attributes, define the project or program properties and select the configuration options. You can also update the project or program attributes as work progresses. These attributes include the project or program description, scope, project or program number, and so forth.

Only members of the project creators group and the organization administrator in an organization are allowed to create projects. By default, organizations allow all members to create projects, but the organization or site administrator may update an organization restricting project creation privileges to identified creators.

Only members of the program creators group and the organization administrator in an organization are allowed to create programs. By default, only the organization administrator can create programs. The organization administrator must manually add users to the program creators group to allow users to create programs.

For information about creating projects and programs, see the help available from the New Project or New Program windows.