Where do they come from?

After thinking about the professional immaturity of the manager and the criteria for project success , it’s time to figure out who he is, this project manager.

Who are the project managers? What competencies should have? Where do they come from: are they born or become?

The most capacious definition that I have recently given to the profession of a project manager is “the animal that waters the tree” ...
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Who are the project managers?

In general, the project manager is a responsible employee, whose responsibilities include creating something in the conditions of general uncertainty. Create, within the time, quality and budget constraints in a predetermined environment.

That is, the project manager is a person who realizes some goal qualitatively and on time, using pre-determined resources: temporary, human, organizational and material.

This is where he looks like a small animal to which: given out are a shovel, seeds, a watering can and a support group; and the task was set to grow a Christmas tree for the New Year's mornings.

What to know where to go?

With a set of skills and abilities already fun - in the project manager must be combined perfectly opposite qualities. If a coin has always two sides, then the project manager is generally multi-faceted in its manifestations.

Boring guys from different scientific research institutes of the times of the bubonic plague made up a stack of standards describing the activities up to nausea in detail, but in reality the work of the project manager consists of:
1. Planning
2. Control
3. Communication

In principle, a project manager should be able to do only two things: manage the state of affairs and communicate. The only difference from the present leader is increased stress tolerance. Projects always imply time limits, and in such conditions some members of the team must pass their nerves. Is it contagious.

I select the third skill separately. They should have an excellent project manager. Manage the mood of the team. Somehow I will write about it. It is important.

Where do they come from?

One thing is for sure - they are not born. There are excellent organizers, inborn speakers, meticulous financiers, just a huge soul, humane people ... I have never met a born project manager. Everyone lacks something to have complete control over things to happen.

Some things have to learn. Each - his own.

Once I stumbled upon an explanatory book in which the guys from the American Institute put all the knowledge and skills necessary for a project manager in their minds. They came to three main areas of competency assessment: knowledge, skills, communication skills.



The book also contains criteria for evaluating various areas of knowledge and skills, as well as recommendations on how to assess communication skills. The book is sensible, called "Project Management Competency Development Framework". The text is worth reading, the table (and they constitute more than 80% of the volume of the book) - open as needed.