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The Project Manager is responsible for each stage of the project and the final outcome, and works closely with the project team and the stakeholders/clients during these stages. Specifically this will include:

• Confirm the business objectives of the project
• Ascertain assumptions and constraints that might affect the final outcome
• Identify and manage risks ‰
• Establish the project requirements
• Define the project deliverables
• Estimate and allocate resources
• Monitor and report on project progress
• Handle issues and changes during the project lifecycle

In terms of project management, ROI (Return on Investment) is a quantitative measure that tells senior management of a project what amount of financial (funds) and/or non-financial (technology, knowledge, materials) resources they get back from doing the project for what they invest in the project.

Project ROI is calculated and analyzed before the project gets started. It is a mechanism of making decision on whether invest resources in the project initiative. When an investor (sponsor) evaluates a project, he/she calculates ROI to do the following:

• Justify the project
• Rationalize expenditure
• Pursue to take a specific course of action

ROI is an indicator that can be calculated. Here’re the key inputs for making ROI calculations:

• Cost. An amount of money required for maintaining and operating the project
• Benefits. An amount of financial effect the investor gains from the project.
• Annual Cash Flow. A difference between the project cost and financial benefits.
• Non-monetary benefits, including quality, timeliness, quantity etc.

In any project environment there is also a set of choices to do the project. There can be multiple choices or alternatives, and the challenge here is to determine which one best fits into the project requirements and goals and leads the project to success. A cost-benefit analysis is the way to examine and estimate available choices and then decide which choice is worthwhile.

A cost-benefit analysis is an attempt to estimate alternatives surrounding a project and determine the impact of every alternative to the project. The analysis regards cost and benefit as the key parameters for estimations. It allows identifying the components of available benefits and costs through creating project appraisals and estimates.

A cost-benefit analysis is used to compare the monetary expectations of a project with the project costs for each solution available. The analysis estimates such parameters as the average cost for project HR, capital costs, labor cost, etc.

There are a number of different ways of managing a project depending on the nature of the project and a Project Management Methodology is the particular approach that will be used for any given project. A  PM methodology provides a standard method for completing a project and ensures it is managed in a controlled and consistent fashion. It aims to ensure that the project delivers a high-quality product on time and within budget.

The Agile approach to project management involves an iterative approach to the different phases of a project so that the work required is completed in small sections and reviewed before subsequent sections are started. The information gleaned from each review can then be used to determine how the next stage should be handled and what it should involve. The advantage of this approach is that problems can be dealt with more easily because they are highlighted sooner, which means it is more cost-effective to alter and subsequently more likely that the project will be completed on time and within budget.