The Project Management Office Toolkit

Line Management of Project Managers

Project managers, like any other employees, need to be managed. They need to have clear expectations set for them, work assignments handed out, and the quality of their work assessed. These functions can remain with the department's line management or they can be included as part of the responsibility of the project office. The decision that you must make in establishing a project office is whether or not it will provide line management to project managers. If it does, the project managers will report to the manager of the project office who will be responsible for their performance and their careers. Alternatively, they can continue to report to a functional department, leaving the project office in a support ...