What knowledge and skills you have to have to be a Project Manager?
Thomsett claims, that you should master the following knowledge sets:
- modeling scope and objectives;
- Benefits analysis and realization;
- Stakeholder communication strategies and management;
- Quality modeling and deployment;
- Quality assurance techniques;
- Business and project risk analysis and management;
- Project development strategies [versions, fast-tracking, alternative build scenarios]
- Project sizing and estimation;
- Project and activity costing;
- Project scheduling;
- Project tracking and reporting;
- Business ethics and professional behaviour;
- Technical and interpersonal skills analysis;
- Negotiation skills in a project environment;
- Team building and leadership;
- Facilitation skills [meetings, etc.]; and
- Communication skills [formal and inter-personal].
It is hard to disagree...