CHAPTER2

What It Means to Be a Project Manager

In This Chapter

  • Understanding the link between project manager and business strategies
  • The role of the project manager
  • The knowledge areas possessed by effective project managers
  • The skills of successful project managers
  • Seven traits of effective project managers

Regardless of what your business card says, if you manage projects, your company is depending on you to deliver a successful project. In this chapter, you learn what it takes to be a good project manager, because your company’s success depends on successful project managers.

The Business Connection

Most companies decide to begin a project ...

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