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What are the skills required to be a project manager?
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Answer / ranjana
A PM should have skills like:
- collaborative and committed
- planning and scheduling
- problem solver
- a good team player
- tracking daily status/progress
- strong in communication
- knowledge of process
- knowledge of skills required for project
- time management
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Answer / yogesh
Including all the points mentioned allready.
I think PM need to posses
1. Risk management skills.
2. Overall system integration.
3. Technology trade-offs.
4. Know the job
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Answer / j bond
Skill to screw the subordinates and praise the boss.
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Answer / aladin
Strong Communication Skills.
Posses Leadership qualities.
Able to understand problems.
Plan with the available resources.
Time keeping.
supporting.
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Answer / zivile
Planning
Organising
Scheduling
Intergrating
Coordinating
Managing
Communicating
Selling
Administering
Negotiating
Managing conflict
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Answer / bhaskar ranjan das
The skills required to be a project manager are
many, some of which have been listed by others.
However, the KEY skill which a project manager
should have is "delivering projects on or before
due-date"
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You know that the next status meeting will require some discussion and a decision for a problem that has surfaced on the project. In order to make the most accurate decision, you know that the number of participants in the meeting should be limited to: A. 1 to 5 B. 5 to 11 C. 7 to 16 D. 10 to 18
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During a recent team meeting, you reached a resolution to a problem that's been troubling the team for several weeks. You took responsibility for searching out the facts of this problem and uncovered the right answer to this problem. You presented the facts at the project status meeting, and everyone reached agreement on the recommended solution based on the facts you presented. This is an example of what type of conflict resolution technique? A. Compromise B. Smoothing C. Confrontation D. Forcing
Which of the following are the tools and techniques of the Cost Budgeting process? A. Project management information system, analogous estimating, bottom-up estimating, mathematical analysis B. Analogous estimating, bottom-up estimating, mathematical analysis, computerized tools C. Project management software, analogous estimating, bottom-up estimating, parametric modeling D. Analogous estimating, bottom-up estimating, parametric modeling, computerized tools
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