• Apply project resources according to the approved project plan.
• Analyze risk and instigate avoidance activities. Establish contingency plans and identify trigger events and responsibility for initiating corrective action.
• Track and report on progress to plan.
• Analyze the actual performance against the plan and make adjustments consistent with plan objectives.
• Keep all stakeholders informed of progress and issues.
• Involve functional expertise in design reviews and key decisions as well as risk strategies.
• Assure timely adaptive action is taken.
• Manage change to preserve business plan commitments. Initiate Phase Review if objectives must change.
• Negotiate the performance of activities with team members and their managers.
• Establish and publish clear priorities among project activities.
• Coordinate management and technical decisions.
• Arbitrate and resolve conflict and interface problems within the project.
• Provide input on the performance of project team members to their supervisors.