ABSTRACT
All projects have their risks and crises, but where there is good project management those episodes are minimized. Risk forecasting and assessment is a valuable part of the duties of many project support offices. Every project needs a schedule and detailed budgets if it is to be controlled, and those in turn require initial work breakdowns and cost estimates. Thus projects need planners and cost engineers, although for a very small project it is possible that a multi-skilled project manager can carry out these functions without assistance. Project managers need support in various forms from their superiors. This chapter discusses some of ways in which one, as a senior manager, can help to ensure that their project management function operates efficiently and without avoidable stress. A senior manager can help and support their project managers by listening to any difficulties they might experience that are a direct result of the organisation and communications structure in which they have placed them.
