Project Management Competencies and Project Selection

This document discusses the importance of personal traits or competencies for project managers to be effective. It also explores the methods and processes for project selection.

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Project Management Competencies and Project Selection
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1. Based on your current understanding of global project management, critically analyse
particular personal traits or competencies that are important for project managers to
possess in order to be most effective?
Personality traits or competencies are very much important for the successful completion
of a project within the budget and time period allocated for the project. The qualities of a project
manager are very much important to deal with critical business conditions, such as the
unavailability of the resources which are often found in the projects (Lloyd, 2016).
The primary attribute of a project manager required in the project is their leadership and
communication skill which are very much important to deal with the complexities coming from
both the internal stakeholders of project such as the investors of the project as well as from the
external stakeholders such as the supplier of the raw materials.
The vision of the project managers is also very much important in complex projects. Each of
the stakeholders of the project has to be managed by the project managers using their negotiation
and decision making skills. Team building skill is the other personality trait of a project
manager which is needed to balance the team members of the project (Lounsbury et al., 2016).
The balance of a team is maintained by both years of experience in the same industry,
educational qualifications of the candidates and the priority of the main stakeholders of the
project in terms of the designation. Interpersonal skills and problem solving attitude are very
much important for the project managers in order to deal with the project management.
However, in spite of having these skills, there are complexities in a project when the
resources are starved, these kinds of complexities can effectively be solved by the project
members of the team itself. The role or the personality traits of the project managers have no

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impact on the completion of the project in a few instances which requires the effort from the
other team members to deal with the issue. Thus, there are different categories of project
competencies involved in a project which has to be well dealt by the project managers in order to
complete the project within the deadline.
2. Briefly describe a project of which you are aware, either through personal experience,
observation or from your own research. Explain the methods that could appropriately be
used in project selection and their processes.
Considering my personal experience and observation, the methods used in the IT projects
will be explained in this unit of the paper. The IT projects which are generally considered in the
of the IT organization are either outsourcing project or insourcing. The outsourced projects are
projects which comes from outside the organization (Kerzner, 2018). The IT organization which
I used to work for used both insourcing as well as outsourcing projects. The outsourcing IT
projects used to come from different types of freelance websites and the insourcing projects used
to come from the agents of the organization.
The selection method which can be used for any categories of projects may depends upon the
following categories:
 Educational qualification of the candidates.
 Background of the candidate.
 Post for which the candidate is applying for.
 Total experience of the candidate within the same industry.
 Nature of the job.

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The platforms which can be selected by the business organizations for the selection method
are as followings:
 Job portals with the involvement of the third party.
 Direct recruitment based upon reference from an existing employee.
The selection of the IT projects depends entirely on the vacancy of the IT designer and the IT
developers who have years of experience working on IT projects. The role of a project manager
is very much important in the outsourcing project as there are stakeholders outside the country as
well. Latest software and hardware are required for the designing and the development of the
software and the websites (Binder, 2016). Demos and mockups are required to be given to the
end users of the projects which requires special software, the role of the project managers are
very much important in giving the mockups and demos. The methods and the systems used in the
IT projects depends entirely on the cash flow from the clients of the projects (Morton, Keisler &
Salo, 2016). Milestone payments were accepted for the IT projects which are used for each of the
phases of the developmental cycle. Thus, the role of the project manager is very much important
for both the outsourced and insourced IT projects.

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