Skills of a Successful Project Manager

Respond to the following:

•  What do you think are the essential skills of a project manager? Please identify three to four skills. In your answer, focus on the skills specific to the project manager role, and not on skills common to all team members.
•  Explain why and how each skill is useful in fulfilling a project manager's responsibilities.
•  For each skill, give an example of how it helps a project manager perform. You may use examples from your experience or construct fictitious ones.
•  Identify an example, based on your experience or via Internet search, of a failed project that is attributable to the project manager’s lack of any one of the above-mentioned skills.

Upon completion of this discussion, you will be able to: Identify the skills a project manager needs to have.

Schwalbe, K. (2015). An Introduction to Project Management (5th ed.). Minneapolis, MN: Schwalbe Publishing

Chapter 1: An Introduction to Project, Program, and Portfolio Management

Chapter 2: Project, Program, and Portfolio Selection