Starting with the End in Mind Author:Jeff Davidson Project managers come in many varieties, but if you were to boil down the two primary characteristics of project managers they would be: — * A project manager's ability to lead a team. This is largely dependent upon the managerial and personal characteristics of the project manager. — * A project manager's ability to handle the critical project is... more »sues. This involves the project manager's background, skills, and experience in handling these and similar issues.
If you could only pick one set of attributes for a project manager, either being good at the people side of managing projects or being good at the technical side of managing projects, which do you suppose, over the broad span of all projects ever undertaken, has proven to be the most valuable? You guessed it-- the people side.« less