What are the skills required to be a project manager?
Followup question, Rate yourself in each of the skill with
examples.
Answer Posted / 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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