It is a long-standing joke in the project management community that if anyone ever asks you who is responsible for anything in the project, the answer will always be the project manager. Truly it is easier to specify what the project manager does not do than to discuss what he or she actually does and is responsible for.
The nature and scope of the project should dictate the individual roles and responsibilities of the project team. When all of the team assignments and responsibilities have been decided, all of the functions and responsibilities of the project will have been assigned. The responsibility-accountability matrix is useful for determining and tracking the relationship between a given responsibility and who is responsible for it.
The functional manager must have a staffing plan that allows him or her to know where the people in their functional organization are committed. If these commitments are not organized the utilization of the human resources will be poor. A staffing plan for the functional manager is similar to the project schedule, except that instead of showing the schedule for each task in the project, it shows the schedule for each resource in the functional manager's responsibility.
The nature and scope of the project should dictate the individual roles and responsibilities of the project team. When all of the team assignments and responsibilities have been decided, all of the functions and responsibilities of the project will have been assigned. The responsibility-accountability matrix is useful for determining and tracking the relationship between a given responsibility and who is responsible for it.
The functional manager must have a staffing plan that allows him or her to know where the people in their functional organization are committed. If these commitments are not organized the utilization of the human resources will be poor. A staffing plan for the functional manager is similar to the project schedule, except that instead of showing the schedule for each task in the project, it shows the schedule for each resource in the functional manager's responsibility.