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Explains why functional/project dual environments create obstacles in planning consistency, reporting quality, resource commitments, and cross-project dependency resolution. 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A project administrator provides structure and tools that support planning, scheduling, tracking, and status reporting.","Answer",{"name":111,"@type":106,"acceptedAnswer":112},"What responsibilities does the project administrator support in project control?",{"text":113,"@type":109},"The project administrator supports project control through planning, resource scheduling, progress tracking, and status reporting. It also helps coordinate resolution of cross-project issues like resource conflicts and inter-dependencies.",{"name":115,"@type":106,"acceptedAnswer":116},"How does the project administrator improve outcomes for multiple project managers?",{"text":117,"@type":109},"By absorbing planning and reporting burden for several project managers, each gains more time for direct project management activities. 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Mahler, PMP-Director Project Administration Institute Larchmont, N.Y., USA  \nIntroduction  \n> Do your PM's have years of experience using PM tools to plan and control projects?  \n> Do your project managers all use different PM tools?  \n> Do your project managers all use PM tools differently?  \n> Do they coordinate resources shared with other PM's?  \n> Do they coordinate inter-project dependencies with other PM's?  \n> Do they report when you want them to?  \n> Do their reports help to run the business?  \n> Is a staff assistant needed to compile, summarize, and interpret their reports?  \nThis paper is intended to introduce the benefits of the project administrator for environments that are new to project management disciplines, or for whom project management is not their primary function.  \nProject management has been used to coordinate large numbers of people performing many interdependent activities since the pyramids. Modern \"project mature\"organizations include engineering and construction companies, defense contractors, and government agencies that employ those companies. In recent years non-project organizations that instead perform repetitive activities like making or distributing products or providing services (ie. the majority of the corporate and public sector world) have found themselves forced to re-engineer products and operations at an ever increasing rate to be competitive. This increasing change has translated into an increase in the size and number of projects non-project organizations must manage, thus the dramatic increase in demand for project management capabilities and interest in conferences such this one.  \nNon-project repetitive activity organizations employ functional departments rather than project teams for their normal daily operations. Their new dual, functional/project, environment causes them to encounter obstacles not seen by pure project organizations:  \n∙ Their department structure and personnel are better suited to repetitive operations than one-of-a-kind tasks characteristic of a project.  \n∙ Project managers and teams are selected when needed from operating departments rather than from a pool of full time professionals.  \n∙ Project team members also have responsibilities to their department and often carry on both activities simultaneously.  \n∙ Executive management has dual responsibility, to both the project and their function.  \n∙ The financial system is time period rather than project duration oriented leading to budget difficulties.  \n∙ The project manager has difficulty ensuring that functional managers will honor their commitments to supply manpower to the project on the dates in the plan.  \nWith multiple large projects taking place in a functional organization management finds it difficult to obtain consistent planning and reporting from its project managers and to understand and control the dual environment.  \nAn increasing number of functional organizations have determined that the most effective way to manage projects in this environment is through a project administrator. An experienced project administrator provides structure and computer tools that support project planning, resource scheduling, progress tracking, and status reporting turning new project managers into professionals. Operating as the primary interface between the project executive and multiple project managers an experienced project administrator:  \n∙ Supports both project managers and project executives in the dual environment.  \n∙ Absorbs the project planning and reporting burden of multiple project managers providing each with 20% to 50% more time for direct project management activities.  \n∙ Improves the quality and consistency of planning and reporting.  \n∙ Ensures the resolution of cross project issues such as resource conflicts and plan inter-dependencies.  \n∙ Reduces training and software costs, and the overall cost of project management  \n∙","cbCaivNJ6Yln87Gd","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaivNJ6Yln87Gd","pdf",235389,9,"English","# Introduction\n## Need for a project administrator\n# Project administration\n## Definition and purpose\n## Management disciplines and planning/reporting (P&R)","[{\"question\":\"Why do some organizations need a project administrator instead of relying only on project managers?\",\"answer\":\"Functional/project dual environments make consistent planning and reporting difficult, and executive and financial structures are not project-duration oriented. 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