Here's the scenario. You're running a technical project from the delivery side and you're coordinating the efforts of your team, you're leading all the meetings and you're keeping all the stakeholders up to date. You are engaging the customer once a week (and as needed, of course) with a regularly scheduled formal project status call or meeting.
As the delivery-side PM, you are running the entire engagement with the developers and system architects and business analysts reporting to you on your project team. The project is yours to run and theirs to perform on. Your customer has a point person – usually the project sponsor – who you report to, give status reports to, is your main point of contact and has complete interest in what you and your team are doing. And they can make decisions with and for you which is especially helpful when they need to be made quickly...
As the delivery-side PM, you are running the entire engagement with the developers and system architects and business analysts reporting to you on your project team. The project is yours to run and theirs to perform on. Your customer has a point person – usually the project sponsor – who you report to, give status reports to, is your main point of contact and has complete interest in what you and your team are doing. And they can make decisions with and for you which is especially helpful when they need to be made quickly...
