{"id":1374,"date":"2012-11-26T15:15:56","date_gmt":"2012-11-26T15:15:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.techopedia.com\/definition\/project-director\/"},"modified":"2012-11-26T15:15:56","modified_gmt":"2012-11-26T15:15:56","slug":"project-director","status":"publish","type":"definition","link":"https:\/\/www.techopedia.com\/definition\/676\/project-director","title":{"rendered":"Project Director"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span id=\"what_does_project_director_mean\">What Does Project Director Mean?<\/span><\/h2>\n<p>A project director is a project management role in which an individual strategically oversees, monitors and manages an IT project from an executive level. As the most responsible authority over a project, this individual is charged with managing IT team members and allocated resources.<\/p>\n<h2><span id=\"techopedia_explains_project_director\">Techopedia Explains Project Director<\/span><\/h2>\n<p>A project director leads a team of one or more project managers (PM) and various software developers, Web developers, graphic designers, testers, network engineers and other staff essential to a project. A key job responsibility is completing an IT project on schedule and within budget while working within the project&#8217;s scope of work (SOW) or function specification document (FSD). <\/p>\n<p>A project director has the authority to make key decisions, adjust budgets and add resources and related project governance processes. A project director receives regular reports from the project manager and\/or team leads. 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