Project management skills

Project management skills

Whether you are complete beginner or seasoned professional, we can offer resources to enhance your project management skills

 We like to think about two groups of project management skills – hard skills (or technical project management skills) and soft skills (skills for good management and leadership).

Hard Skills

Learn how to apply technical project management skills to the development of high-tech products and services. We have been applying formal methodologies since 1995 and in particular PMI methodology to high-tech environments since 1999. Formal methodologies can work extremely well.

Project management training tends to come in a pure form leaving the project manager wondering how the theory can be applied to the dynamic, complex and occasionally chaotic circumstances.

Investigate our learning resources to get practical tips:

  • Resource management
  • Procurement and supply chain management
  • Scope management
  • Cost management
  • Quality management
  • Issues management
  • Risk management
  • Schedule management
  • Requirements management
Stakeholder management

Soft Skills

Project management skills can be referred to as “management++”, meaning that project managers need all the skills of a top-class manager plus many “technical” tools and techniques pertaining to project management.

Take steps now to improve your skills:

  • Motivation
  • Teamwork
  • Communications
  • Coordination & organisation
  • Leadership
  • Predictive capability
  • Negotiating skills
  • Problem solving
  • Prioritisation
  • Personal organisation
  • Time management
  • Meeting management
Effective project managers should also have a thorough understanding of project lifecycles and new product development methodology and product strategy. Even if you have an organisational project lifecycle understanding what should be included in an optimal project lifecycle is a critical know-how element of the skill set of any successful project or programme manager.