The Complete Project Manager: Integrating People, Organizational, and Technical Skills

by Randall L. Englund

The Complete Project Manager: Integrating People, Organizational, and Technical Skills is the practical guide that addresses the "soft" project management skills that are so essential to successful project, program, and portfolio management. Through a storytelling approach, the authors explain the necessary skills--and how to use them--to create an environment that supports project success. They demonstrate both the "why" and the "how" of creatively applying soft project management skills in the areas of leadership, conflict resolution, negotiations, change management, and more. This guide has an accompanying workbook, The Complete Project Manager's Toolkit, sold separately.

376 pages, Paperback

Published April 1, 2012

Reviews

[Sergey Dudko]

Learn how to manage yourself first: emotions, time, thinking and energy

Manage your executives

Be charismatic: share more about yourself

Focus on others

As a manager, you need to be ready to sacrifice things for the sake of team's performance

Use selling skills by pointing to client's future benefit from the project

Lead by example

Stay positive

Set clear expectations

Be respectful to team members

Be direct

3P: Passion, Persistence, Patience

Go beyond your formal authority

Spend 70% of the time using your strength, 25% of time to learn knew things and 5% of time on addressing weaknesses

Use humour as it improved people's performance

[Bonnie]

Read this one to write a journal review, so I can't put all of that content here. But I would recommend to people already employed as project managers who want to improve their skills, or to those who have been thrust into similar roles coming from a technical background who need a basic intro to people, management, networking, business skills, and more. There are twelve chapters on various skill types, and each is mostly independent if you want to just work on a couple of specific ones.