What are the key skills required to be a good project manager?
• Required Skills for Project Managers! Project Management is part and parcel of every business. It is a systematic approach to managing and controlling new initiatives or changes in an organization. Projects, often time-bound, involve completing a number of activities within a given duration and a fixed budget. What makes project management interesting and demanding is that it requires a great deal of time, expertise and aptitude for managing things. Hence, there are specialists called project managers to handle project management. The project manager’s job is much more than estimating, managing and delivering the project within specific time duration and a limited budget. The project manager is responsible for: • Planning the project in detail • Organizing the team to work on it • Communicating the project status on a regular basis to the concerned stakeholders • Adhering to the time schedule and budget • Closing the project His responsibility starts at the inception of the project.
