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Project Management Absolute Beginner's Guide, 4th Edition
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Project Management Absolute Beginner's Guide, 4th Edition

by Greg Horine
February 2017
Beginner
448 pages
11h 42m
English
Que
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2. The Project Manager

In This Chapter

Review the different roles played by the project manager

Review the key skills every project manager should possess

Learn why some project managers are much more successful than others

Understand the common mistakes made by many project managers

As we reviewed in Chapter 1, “Project Management Overview,” the project manager has many activities to perform, challenges to overcome, and responsibilities to uphold over the life of a project. Depending on your individual experiences, your industry background, and the manner in which project management has been implemented, this review might have been quite enlightening to you.

To ensure that we have a common understanding of what a project manager does, ...

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