The Project Management Office Toolkit

Training Project Managers

Good project managers need three types of skill: technical project management skills, project leadership skills, and general management skills. Each of these is discussed here.

Technical Project Management Skills

Project managers need to have mastered the technical requirements of the job. These include planning skills such as the ability to develop a work breakdown structure, identify dependencies, gather and assess estimates, analyze the critical path, analyze risks, assign and level resources, and build a project plan. They also include project execution skills such as the ability to gather and evaluate status data, develop estimates at completion, prepare meaningful status reports, and track progress. (Among these ...