Field exercises
1 In the given figure the organization has got three departments which are orders department, accounting department and payroll department. The activities which play a major role are order filling, invoicing, accounts receivable, inventory control, accounts payable, payroll and general ledger. Given a project manager the responsibilities of the manager would be mainly concerned with orders department which include order filing system which in turn has customer master file, inventory master file and back order file. The manager is responsible for the team work, initiation plan and design, work flow and order delivery. The manager should also maintain a good customer relation, which is not a major key role but also a challenging responsibility. Product delivery, project status, inventory control are the other major challenging responsibilities. The responsibilities which do not come under manager are payroll department, inventory pricing, invoicing system. These are handled by the accounts department and management department, the manager duty is to only handle his team and deliver the project on given time.

2 The steps involved in project planning:
Describing the project scope, alternatives and feasibility is the first stage of project planning where the reasonability of the manager is to give a brief idea of the project scope and its feasibility. The second stage is dividing the project into manageable tasks which helps the team members to allot the work among each group. Estimating the resources and creating the resource plan is a major responsibility of the manager to do before initiating the project which gives a budget of the project. Developing a communication plan helps the group members to communicate among each other and resolve the issues. Stage six which determining the project standards and procedures helps to follow a standard process