Comments on: Project Managers Need to Set Deadlines, Even if the Client Doesn’t http://www.cmguide.org/archives/1136 All you need for your career.. Thu, 26 Jan 2012 11:12:34 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Rey Madrono http://www.cmguide.org/archives/1136/comment-page-1#comment-38 Rey Madrono Thu, 22 Jan 2009 13:24:28 +0000 http://cmguide.org/?p=1136#comment-38 This is one for the classroom rather than in actual practice. Projects do have timetable defined under programme of works which may or may not be varied depending upon the necessity of extending the time for completion. Only when the end-date or time for completion is deemed "at large" can we have a situation where the PM may, if allowed by the contract, to set the deadline "even if the client does not". Projects are covered with contracts or agreements between the owner/employer and contractor only, and the PM cannot supplant his will unto the owner and/or contractor and set deadlines without running afoul against the appropriate provisions of law. He is just a PM charged to supervise and implement the project no more no less, hence, unless fully clothed with authority under contract clauses to set deadlines, he cannot do so without exposing himself to liabilities under the law. This is one for the classroom rather than in actual practice. Projects do have timetable defined under programme of works which may or may not be varied depending upon the necessity of extending the time for completion. Only when the end-date or time for completion is deemed “at large” can we have a situation where the PM may, if allowed by the contract, to set the deadline “even if the client does not”.

Projects are covered with contracts or agreements between the owner/employer and contractor only, and the PM cannot supplant his will unto the owner and/or contractor and set deadlines without running afoul against the appropriate provisions of law. He is just a PM charged to supervise and implement the project no more no less, hence, unless fully clothed with authority under contract clauses to set deadlines, he cannot do so without exposing himself to liabilities under the law.

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