projectmanagement paper

This paper presents a review of  soft skills that can possibly improve success rate of software projects.

ABSTRACT

As evidenced in the CHAOS Report (The Standish Group, 2012), challenges leading to project failures are increasing. These failures, which are largely in part due to a lack of “soft skills” in the project management sector can therefore be overcome by improving these “soft skills”. This report, looked at the importance of soft skills a project manager should have to optimize the teams chances for successfully completing a project. It emphasized these as skills under the major knowledge areas of - (a) Leadership skills, (b) Organizational skills, (c) Management skills and (d) People skills. Leadership skills when combined with effective management skills, along with a combination of organizational skills and people skills can play a key role in achieving project objectives.  

Soft Skills

Leadership

Motivation

Decision Making

Negotiation

Influencing

Coaching

Organization Skills

Communication

“A typical project manager spends about 70-90% of their time communicating!”

-PMI’s Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK)

Team Building

Delegation

Flexibility

Presentation skills

Attention to Detail

Management Skills

Time and resource Management

Conflict Management

Expectation Management

Stress Management

Change Management

Transition Management

Social Awareness

Trust building

Emotional intelligence

Ethics and integrity

Political and Cultural awareness

Others

Accountability

Responsibility

Objectivity

Proactivity

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