Project Management: Traits, Skills, Tools, Techniques, and Planning

This project management assignment delves into the critical traits and skills essential for effective project leadership. It emphasizes the importance of technical and operational skills in utilizing tools and methodologies for project planning, highlighting the need for an integrative and participative approach. The assignment outlines the project lifecycle, including the integration of scope, time, and budget constraints, and the role of a project manager in various aspects such as program planning, personnel management, and quality management. It also discusses the use of specific tools and techniques, like registers, quality checklists, and work breakdown structures, to achieve project objectives. The assignment references key texts such as Gido & Clements (2014) and Kendrick (2013), providing a comprehensive overview of project management principles and practices.

A PROJECT MANAGER IMPORTANT TRAITS
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The important perspective of a project manager is technical and operative skills of using tools
and methodologies to plan for projects (Kendrick, 2013). The project is expected to have an
integrative and participative approach in delivering deliverables. A project involves a sequence
of event and activities to be achieved within a certain time limit. A program consists of a series
of projects intertwine to achieve one goal. A project manager is expected to integrate the three
constraints of scope, time and budget in order to achieve the objectives (Gido & Clements,
2014). In project management the job holder is expected to come up with suitable plans that will
enable the project to be accomplished during its project life cycle.
Some of the specific role of a project manager in a program include: program planning,
personnel management, funds allocation and controls, schedule assurance, acquisition,
configuration management, quality management, and management reporting (Gido & Clements,
2014). In accomplishing the following tasking the project manager is expected to formulate plans
for them (Gido & Clements, 2014). Example of such plans include: scope, quality,
communication, procurement, cost, monitoring and evaluation, schedules, and closure plans.
Each of the plans requires specific tools and techniques that a project manager can use to plan for
them. Examples of such tools and techniques include: registers, quality checklists, network
diagrams, work breakdown structures. Employing technical and operative skills allows the
project to be accomplished with the required specifications and deliverables.

References
Gido & Clements. (2014). Successful project management. Chicago: Nelson Education.
Kendrick, T. (2013). The project management tool kit: 100 tips and techniques for getting the job
done right. . AMACOM Div: American management Assn.