Q. What is a task manager?

Terminology in the project business is extremely confusing. Different people as well as different organizations use different names to mean different things in different circumstances and there is no well established set of standard definitions. In general there is a hierarchical set of words which run from top to bottom as follows: Project, Program, Function, Activity, Process and Task.

Interestingly even though the leader of any one of these may have different names the management concepts involved are virtually identical. Furthermore the role of the leader of a particular task may be just as important to the overall success of a project as another apparently higher up the chain.