PROJ6000 Discussion: Project Selection and Management Skills

This discussion post for PROJ6000, Principles of Project Management, addresses essential project management competencies and project selection methods. The post emphasizes the importance of skills like cultural sensitivity, communication, negotiation, leadership, and team building, particularly in global project management. It highlights the significance of these skills in managing diverse teams and achieving project goals. The post also includes an example of project selection issues, referencing the Queensland Health Payroll (QHP) project to illustrate the impact of ineffective communication and decision-making on project outcomes. The QHP project faced issues due to poor project selection, which led to budget overruns and schedule delays. This underscores the need for effective project selection processes that consider key areas of project management, such as time and cost management, to ensure project success.

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Project management is a technique of making use of effective tools, techniques and
planning skills to ensure successful project execution. However, management of global project
require a project manager to possess certain key personal traits and competencies for ensure an
effective project management. For management of global project, it is essential for a project
manager to have certain essential skills of negotiation, leadership, communication, team building
and skills of managing the human resources. However, apart from these essential skills, a
manager needs to hold certain key abilities to be internationally ready and to manage the project
in a global environment. One particular personal trait that a global project manager needs to hold
in order to be operative include the skill of being culturally sensitive. A global project manager
needs to work with a culturally diverse team and therefore, this particular skill is required to be
possessed by the manager (Binder, 2016). Apart from that, it is necessary for the manager to be
an excellent communicator to perform effectively in global projects. These skills and
competencies are important for the project managers to possess while management of a global
team mostly because in a global context, a manager needs to work with a culturally diverse team
and communicate with the team in an effective manner to make the team members understand
the expectations and the deliverables of the project (Zulch, 2014). Apart from that, another must
have skill for a manager is the ability of the manager to negotiate and resolve conflict. This can
be achieved by building commitment within the team (Barnwell et al., 2014). Building a team
commitment is necessary to ensure that the entire team is working towards accomplishing a
mutual goal.
Project Selection is a process of assessing a particular idea to select a project having
highest priority. The selection of any project is mainly done on basis of the aims, objectives and

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the description of the project. In this context, one example of a project can be cited where certain
issues were faced in project selection. In Queensland Health Payroll (QHP) project there were
issues with project selection and the process chosen for execution of the project, which lead to
project failure (Eden & Sedera, 2014). The key issues that were associated with the project
included ineffective communication and ineffective decision making. Although the purpose of
the project was clear in the selection process, the implementation process of the project was not
clearly defined. The project selection could have been done on basis of the implementation
process chosen for the project which could have helped in developing a feasible project plan.
Therefore, effective project selection play a key role in management and execution of a project.
The QHP project faced schedule issues and issue of budget overrun. The project selection
process for the QHP project should have addressed the key areas of project management, which
are time and cost management. The project team of QHP project did not address the key areas
while making a project selection leading to failure of the project.

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References
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Eden, R., & Sedera, D. (2014). The largest admitted IT project failure in the Southern
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Zulch, B. (2014). Leadership communication in project management. Procedia-Social and
Behavioral Sciences, 119, 172-181.