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Some people become professional project managers as a result of strategic career planning, whether they majored in it in college or discovered it in the working world and then climbed the project management ladder. Many just get themselves assigned one day as a project manager and then must figure out what it's all about.

A project manager is the point person responsible for carrying out a project and delivering the desired outcomes—the scope of the project. As the project manager, you balance the constraints of the project budget and the deadline with the elements of the project scope. You continually check in with the team members working on their assigned project tasks, track and analyze the progress, prevent or solve any problems that arise, and report overall project progress to the project sponsor and other stakeholders.

As the project manager, you have your finger on the pulse of the overall project at any given moment. While individual team members might be working on their own specific part of the project, the project manager always sees the project as a whole and knows in what direction it is heading.

According to the Project Management Book of Knowledge (PMBOK©), a successful and well-rounded project manager functions within the following nine disciplines, or knowledge areas:

1 Integration management

2 Scope management

3 Schedule management

4 Cost management

5 Quality management

6 Resource management

7 Communications management

8 Risk management

9 Procurement management

10 Stakeholder management